The mediating role of both religiosity and thinking dispositions in the relationship between cognitive style and morality judgments among high school students

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant professor of educational psychology College of Education - New Valley University

Abstract

The study aimed  to arrive at a model that explains the mediating role of both religiosity and thinking styles about the relationship between cognitive style and moral judgments in a sample of high school students, the study sample consisted of (500) students from high school, whose ages ranged between (16- 18 years) with an average age of (16.2) years and a standard deviation of (1.3) years. The religiosity scale prepared by Ahmed Muhammad Abdel Khaleq (2016), and the measures of thinking styles (extroverted, active, rational, experimental), and a questionnaire of moral foundations prepared by the researcher were applied to them. The averages, standard deviations, correlation coefficients, path analysis model for statistical programs (SPSS 26), (Amos 25) and ,(R) were used to analyze the data, and the results indicated that religiosity and thinking styles (active extrovert (AOT), rational (REI-R), Experimental (REI-E)) act as a partial mediator in the relationship between the cognitive method measured by the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) and the Moral Foundations as measured by the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ), The assumed model achieved a good match of the data (X2 / sd: 9.205, CFI). : 0.998, TLI: 0.996, RMSEA: 0.033), The results also confirm the significant link between religiosity and intuitive thinking  and also indicate that moral judgments are affected by individual differences in thinking styles and cognitive style.

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Volume 89, Issue 89 - Serial Number 89
مناهج وطرق التدریس ( اللغة العربیة- الإنجلیزیة – الفرنسیة – الریاضیات – العلوم- الفنون- الاقتصاد المنزلی- التجاری ... )
September 2021
Pages 15-105
  • Receive Date: 29 April 2021
  • Revise Date: 09 May 2021
  • Accept Date: 19 May 2021