The Mediating Role of Moral Reasoning in the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Behavior in Bystanders to Bullying
akhlāq-i pizishkī i.e., Medical Ethics,
Vol. 17 No. 48 (1402),
21 August 2023
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Page 1-14
https://doi.org/10.22037/mej.v17i48.42953
Abstract
Background and Aim: Nowadays, when social environments are changing rapidly, it seems that the importance of moral reasoning and emotional maturity among all age groups, especially young people, is greatly reduced. The aim of the present study is to investigate the mediating role of moral reasoning in the relationship between emotional intelligence and the bystander behavior of bullying. The target population was male and female secondary school students of Khorram Abad city in the academic year of 1402-1401.
Method: This study is a model of structural equation. The sample of the present study consisted of 310 students selected by cluster sampling. The participants responded to the scales of the Defining Issues Test (Rest et al.), Emotional Intelligence (Bar-On), and the role of participants (Salmivalli et al.). Data analysis was done using a structural equation model by SmartPLS software.
Ethical considerations: Ethical considerations, such as explaining the purpose of the research, keeping the identity of the questioners, ensuring that the answers were confidential. Participants were free to respond to the free questionnaire.
Results: The results of the present study showed that all T-value coefficients were more than 1.96, R2 values for intra-research components of 0.53 to 0.93 as well as Q2 values for all model structures It is 0.27 to 0.61, which shows the meaning of all the relationships between the components at 95 % confidence, so the structural sector of the model is confirmed.
According to the results, emotional intelligence has a positive and significant effect on the bystander behavior of bullying and moral reasoning. The results of the structural equation model also showed that the meaningful number and indirect coefficient, respectively, equal to 8.26 and 0.45, meaning that moral reasoning plays a mediating role in the relationship between emotional intelligence and the bystander behavior of bullying.
Conclusion: The findings of the study showed that there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and bystander behavior of bullying. The results of the equation model showed that students' moral reasoning was able to play a significant mediating role in the relationship between the variables of emotional intelligence and bystander behavior of bullying.
- Bullying
- Emotional Intelligence
- student
- Moral Reasoning
- Bystander Behavior
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