Future orientation and moral judgment in chinese youths: the mediating role of moral disengagement and the moderating role of self-control

Based on the self-regulation theory, this study aims to examine the relationship between youths’ future orientation and judgment of their own immoral behaviors. A moderated mediation model was constructed to investigate the mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating role of self-control. S...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Jing, Zhao, Huanhuan, Zhang, Heyun, Guo, Mingjia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10196313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37359579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04760-5
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Zhao, Huanhuan
Zhang, Heyun
Guo, Mingjia
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description Based on the self-regulation theory, this study aims to examine the relationship between youths’ future orientation and judgment of their own immoral behaviors. A moderated mediation model was constructed to investigate the mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating role of self-control. Six hundred and twenty-eight Chinese youths, with an age range from 16 to 34 years (M = 23.08, SD = 2.65), were recruited to take part in an anonymous survey about future orientation, moral disengagement, self-control, and moral judgment. Results revealed that youths with high future orientation judged their own moral transgressions more harshly and that moral disengagement partially mediated the relationship between the two. Moderated mediation analysis further demonstrated that self-control moderated the relationship between future orientation and moral disengagement and the indirect effect between future orientation and youths’ judgment of their own immoral behaviors. To be specific, the indirect effect was much stronger for youths with high levels of self-control. These findings not only enrich the research about how future orientation affects youths’ judgment of their own immoral behaviors, but also reveal the underlying mechanisms between future orientation and moral judgment, which can provide practical guidance for implementing measures that effectively enhance youths’ moral character and cultivate their ability to think positively about the future.
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spelling pubmed-101963132023-05-23 Future orientation and moral judgment in chinese youths: the mediating role of moral disengagement and the moderating role of self-control Zhang, Jing Zhao, Huanhuan Zhang, Heyun Guo, Mingjia Curr Psychol Article Based on the self-regulation theory, this study aims to examine the relationship between youths’ future orientation and judgment of their own immoral behaviors. A moderated mediation model was constructed to investigate the mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating role of self-control. Six hundred and twenty-eight Chinese youths, with an age range from 16 to 34 years (M = 23.08, SD = 2.65), were recruited to take part in an anonymous survey about future orientation, moral disengagement, self-control, and moral judgment. Results revealed that youths with high future orientation judged their own moral transgressions more harshly and that moral disengagement partially mediated the relationship between the two. Moderated mediation analysis further demonstrated that self-control moderated the relationship between future orientation and moral disengagement and the indirect effect between future orientation and youths’ judgment of their own immoral behaviors. To be specific, the indirect effect was much stronger for youths with high levels of self-control. These findings not only enrich the research about how future orientation affects youths’ judgment of their own immoral behaviors, but also reveal the underlying mechanisms between future orientation and moral judgment, which can provide practical guidance for implementing measures that effectively enhance youths’ moral character and cultivate their ability to think positively about the future. Springer US 2023-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10196313/ /pubmed/37359579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04760-5 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10196313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37359579
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04760-5
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