relationship between moral development dimensions and the dimensions of just world beliefs

Subject Areas : social psychology

marzihe  Malekiha ¹ (-)
Hossien  Jamshidian ² (دانشگاه آزاد)

Received: 2016-12-08 Accepted : 2017-04-17 Published : 2017-05-22

Keywords: university students, unjust world beliefs, general just world beliefs, moral development, just world beliefs for self, just world beliefs for others,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between moral development dimensions and the dimensions of just world beliefs.(i.e, for the self , for the others ,in general, and about the unjust world).Research sample group consisted of 374 students (male and female )which were randomly selected from the students of the Azad universities of khorasgan and Najaf abad. Sample group was selected with the use of cluster sampling method for the first step and the stratified sampling method for the second step .Research questionnaires  were :kit kalian's moral and social responsibility questionnaire (2006)(which consists of 11 questions)and four questionnaires  about just world beliefs. The validity and reliability of research questionnaires was examined and the final results were favorable . Data analyzed with using Pearson's correlation coefficient and enter regression analysis. The results showed that there is significant relation between moral and social responsibility based on and promise and just world beliefs for the self(p<0/05) and moral and social responsibility is general and just world beliefs for the others (p<0/01) .Another section of results on the basis of entre regression analysis showed that only just world beliefs for others have significant predictive power for the moral and social responsibility based on promise and total moral development.