Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• farid nooriyan ¹
• Mahnaz Moghanloo ²

¹ M.A. in Social Psychology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

² Assistant Professor in Psychology group, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

This study aimed to predict the level of moral reasoning of students according to Rost's theory based on social schemas and social cognition. The research design was a correlational design in which the degree and direction of the relationship between the criterion variables of social schema and social cognition and the predictor variable of moral reasoning were examined by regression analysis. For this purpose, 384 people from the statistical population of Payam Noor University in North Tehran and South Tehran were selected using multi-stage cluster sampling method in the academic year 1403. To evaluate the variables, the moral reasoning questionnaire (Rest et al., 1973), social schemas (Yang et al., 1995) and social cognition (Nejati et al., 2014) were used. The data were analyzed with SPSS version 26 software. The results showed that the level of moral reasoning of more than half of the students was average, and multivariate regression analysis showed that the components of cut-off and exclusion, impaired performance and self-direction, impaired limitations, other-orientation, listening to the alarm, and inhibition of social schemas were predicted based on the level of moral reasoning of the students with a coefficient of determination of 0.410 and significant levels (p<0.05). Also, the components of self-awareness, theory of mind, threat recognition, and self-regulation of social cognition are predicted with a coefficient of determination (0.412) and significance levels (p<0.05) based on the level of moral reasoning of students. Overall, the level of moral reasoning of students is average and predicts their social schemas and social cognition.

Keywords

• Social cognition
• Social Schemas
• Moral reasoning
• Rest
• s theory

Main Subjects

• social Psychology