The mediating role of moral disengagement in the relations of temperamental traits with symptoms of conduct disorder in students

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department of Psychology, School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.

2 university of mohaghegh ardabili

3 Department of Psychology, School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

10.22098/jsp.2023.11257.5355

Abstract

objective: the study aimed to examine the mediating role of moral disengagement in the relations of temperamental traits with symptoms of conduct disorder in students.

Methods: this study carried out with descriptive- correlational method. All the first and second periods of high school students in Urmia city in the 2020-2021 academic years was comprised the statistical population. Two hundred and twenty people were selected by multistage random sampling method and answered to the strengths and difficulties questionnaire، affective and emotional composite temperaments scale and moral disengagement scale . Collected data were analyzed using path analisis via SmartPLS 3.

Results: The results of the path analysis model showed that the emotional temperaments of activation and sensitivity have a direct positive effect and the emotional traits of control , coping and inhibition have a direct negative effect on symptoms of conduct disorder. The emotional temperaments of activation , inhibition and sensitivity have a direct positive effect, but temperaments of control and sensitivity have a direct negative effect on moral disengagement. These results also showed that, apart from activation, the coefficients of the paths related to the indirect effects of other emotional temperaments on the symptoms of conduct disorder with the mediation of moral disengagement are significant.

Conclusion: These results show that emotional temperaments are the important antecedents of conduct disorder in adolescents and moral disengagement is also a mediator of the effects of emotional temperaments on the symptoms of conduct disorder.

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Journal of School Psychology

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 19 February 2023

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