Educational Psychology
amin sharifi; Masoud Fazilatpoor; Mahboobeh Fouladchang; farhad khormaei
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Intro ductionOne of the important topics in the field of moral philosophy in psychological theories is the discussion of the role of reasoning in decision making. Moral development studies have emphasized the role and importance of internal and external factors on moral reasoning. This research was done ...
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Intro ductionOne of the important topics in the field of moral philosophy in psychological theories is the discussion of the role of reasoning in decision making. Moral development studies have emphasized the role and importance of internal and external factors on moral reasoning. This research was done with the aim of presenting an explanatory model of moral reasoning based on personality traits. For this purpose, personality traits were considered as an exogenous variable, mindfulness variable as a mediator variable of the first level, value system as a mediator variable of the second level and moral reasoning variable as an endogenous variable.MethodThe method of this research was a correlational research in which personality traits were used as predictor variables and moral reasoning as a criterion (dependent) variable, and mindfulness and individual values were used as mediating variables. The research population included all students studying at Shiraz University in the academic year 1402-1401, from which 400 undergraduate, master's and doctoral students were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling. The data collection tool included the big five personality factor questionnaire, mindfulness questionnaire, personal values questionnaire and moral reasoning standard questionnaire, which was used after checking the reliability and validity. Data analysis was done using SPSS and AMOS software version 24 and PROCESS plugin version 4.2. In order to check the importance of indirect paths, the bootstrap method was used.ResultsThe findings indicated that among the big five factors of personality, the characteristics of agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience have a positive and significant relationship with moral reasoning. Also, among the big five factors of personality, the characteristics of agreeableness, emotional stability and openness to experience showed a positive and significant relationship with mindfulness. In addition, the individual values of self-exaltation and self-enhancement along with mindfulness played a mediating role between the personality traits of emotional stability, openness to experience, agreeableness, and moral reasoning. DiscussionMoral reasoning can help a person to find the best solutions to deal with their duties and responsibilities. Also, openness to experience has the strongest relationship with moral reasoning. People who have a high degree of openness to experience may have a high degree moral reasoning and apply more in their behavior and consider more diverse points of view when making moral judgments and have more trust, kindness, altruism, and other general social behaviors, and they put fairness at the top of their work when judging or reasoning morally. and has a stronger argument. In addition, the more emotionally stable people are, the more they will have the power of mindfulness and become more aware of their thoughts, feelings and actions in the present moment. It has also been seen that people with a strong sense of self-superiority may prioritize their own interests over the interests of others, which can affect their moral reasoning.
Educational Psychology
Mohsen Arbezi; Masoud Fazilatpoor
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IntroductionAcademic well-being is one of the important constructs in educational psychology. Considering the importance of this structure, previous researchers have made efforts to identify its antecedents. Based on the theoretical foundations and previous research, motivational resources are needed ...
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IntroductionAcademic well-being is one of the important constructs in educational psychology. Considering the importance of this structure, previous researchers have made efforts to identify its antecedents. Based on the theoretical foundations and previous research, motivational resources are needed for adaptive performance and progress-oriented behaviours in various fields, especially in the field of education. Among the types of motivation, intrinsic motivation is considered one of the adaptive types of motivation. Intrinsically motivated students study using internal reasons such as the enjoyment of learning, And they experience states of full attention and absorption while studying. The mentioned states are consistent with the experience of flow. Therefore, in the present study, it was assumed that intrinsic motivation can predict academic well-being directly and indirectly through academic flow. the present study was conducted to investigate the structural relationship between intrinsic motivation and academic well-being through the mediation of academic flow.MethodIn this study, 356 students (119 boys, 237 girls) of senior high school in Evaz city (located in the south of Fars province), who were studying in the academic year of 2022-2023, were selected by multi-stage random cluster sampling method; and they responded to the questionnaires of intrinsic motivation (Choi et al., 2010), academic flow (Martin & Jackson, 2008) and academic well-being (Tuominen-Soini et al., 2012). SPSS-16 and AMOS-24 statistical software were used for data analysis.ResultsThe proposed research model was tested using the maximum likelihood method, And the results of the research showed that intrinsic motivation predicts academic well-being directly (β= 0/42, p= 0/009) and indirectly (β=0/07, p= 0/015) through academic flow. Academic flow, in addition to the mediating role, directly (β=0/14, p= 0/012) predicts academic well-being.ConclusionThe findings of this research theoretically include new themes. In general, the results of the current research confirm the role of intrinsic motivation and academic flow as intrapersonal antecedents in facilitating the occurrence of students' academic well-being. The findings of the present research can be used as a basis for designing interventions based on the constructs of intrinsic motivation and academic flow to improve students' academic well-being.
alireza sharifi ardani; farhad khormaei; Mahboobeh Fouladchang; Masoud Fazilatpoor
Abstract
Introduction
One of the most important tasks of the family is to socialize children, and the family provides the first social context for children. Parents can socialize their children emotionally by recognizing children's emotions, discussing the importance of emotions, modeling emotional behaviors, ...
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Introduction
One of the most important tasks of the family is to socialize children, and the family provides the first social context for children. Parents can socialize their children emotionally by recognizing children's emotions, discussing the importance of emotions, modeling emotional behaviors, and Help to regulate the emotional atmosphere of the family. Therefore the aim of this study was to causal explaining the social skills of children based on the moral characters of parents with respect to the mediating role of coping styles with children's negative emotions.
Method
This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlation in terms of method. In the present study, the structural equation modeling method was used. In this study, the variables of parents coping styles with children's negative emotions, parents' moral backgrounds and children's social skills were measured as latent variables. Population included all parents of 84314 elementary school students in Yazd who were studying in the academic year 2019-2020. In the present study, according to both statistical criteria of sample size and criteria of multivariate analysis, the number of 400 participants, including parents of elementary school students, were selected by cluster (multistage) random sampling method. In the present study Social skills questionnaire, parent’s coping with children’s negative emotions scale (CCNES) and moral characters questionnaire were used to collect data and were distributed among all study participants, of which 381 completed the questionnaires. Smart PLS software was used to analyze the data by structural equation modeling with the partial least squares.
Results
Findings showed that the measurement model after correction has acceptable validity and reliability. Results of structural equations showed that the direct path of supportive coping styles with children's negative emotions to social skills is significant. The direct path of non supportive styles of dealing with emotion to social skills is significant; The direct path of moral character to social skills is significant; The direct path of moral character to the suportive parent’s coping with children’s non supportive emotions is not significant and the direct path moral character with non supportive parent’s coping styles with children’s negative emotions are significant Indication of the indirect path of moral character to social skills is not significant due to the mediating role of suportive parent’s coping styles with children’s negative emotions and Indirect path of moral origins to social skills are significant due to the mediating role of non supportive parent’s coping styles with children’s negative emotions . It showed that moral character, both directly and in a process by reducing the non supportive parent’s coping styles with children’s negative emotions can lead to the social skills in children.
Conclusion
Finding of this study suggests that positive moral character (affirmation of altruistic values and rejection of selfish values) can play a significant role in explaining how parents deal with their children's emotions and in some way affect their children's emotional socialization. Thus, the moral character of parents play a significant role in explaining the emotional socialization and social skills of children.
