Investigating the Mediating Role of Moral Motivation and Moral Emotions in the Effect of Moral Disengagement on Bullying (Tehran Elementary School Students)
Subject Areas : Educational
masoume torkashvand
1
(Educational Psychology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
Gholamreza Sarrami
2
(Assistant Professor of Psychology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
haadi keramati
3
(Assistant Professor of Psychology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
robabe noori
4
(Associate Professor of Psychology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
Keywords: Elementary schools, bullying, moral motivation, moral disengagement, moral emotion,
Abstract :
In this study, the mediating role of moral emotion and moral motivation in the effect of moral disengagement on bullying has been investigated. For this purpose, 486 students, including 254 male and 232 female students were selected through simple clustering and random sampling from among all the elementary and high school students in Tehran. Participants responded to four questionnaires included; Bullying (Thornberg & Jangert, 2014), Moral disengagement (Thornberg & Jangert, 2014), Moral emotions (Thornberg et al, 2016), and a researcher-made questionnaire, Moral motivation. This study was conducted using a path analysis method with the help of spss22 and PLS-SEM software. hypotheses have been confirmed (P≤0/05), and it has been shown that moral motivation and moral Emotion both have a mediating role in the relationship between moral Disengagement and bullying. Therefore, it can be concluded that according to the concept of the moral agency from Bandura's social cognitive theory, emotional factors should be considered in addition to cognitive factors and moral reasoning in order to examine the moral behavior of individuals.
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