Alireza Azimpour

Salman Farsi University of Kazerun · psychology

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, some psychological changes have been tracked and reported across the world. Post-COVID-19 freshman university students can be classified as generation Z. The aim of this study was to examine changes in moral and moral-related variables among Iranian Freshman University students in generation Z compared wit...

Moral disengagement is an important predictor of unethical behavior. However, there is little information about individual difference predictors of moral disengagement. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the role of moral identity, mood and intelligence in predicting moral disengagement and its mechanisms. A total of 344 Ira...

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, some psychological changes have been tracked and reported across the world. Post-COVID-19 freshman university students can be classified as generation Z. The aim of this study was to examine changes in moral and moral-related variables among Iranian freshman university students in generation Z compared wit...

According to general aggression model, it is expected that antisocial and prosocial tendencies can be affected by family-related variables. The present study sought to predict aggression and moral identity based on family cohesion, family communication patterns and family social support. The research design was correlational and the population of t...

In self-report questionnaires, possess social desirability bias can be seen. Then, assessing and controlling social desirability is one of the methods to promote the findings based from such questionnaires. One of the most popular instruments that assesses this bias is 13-items Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MCSDS; Reynolds, 1982). How-e...

This study aimed to examine the relation of being student at an Iranian university and changes of character strengths; also, the relation of character strengths and academic performance. 374 university students completed a 48-items form of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths and also 13-items Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. After...

Background: Moral disengagement consists of some cognitive mechanisms that people use them to reduce their negative feeling after doing an immoral behavior. Present study has aimed to study the frequencies of the mechanisms in the content of students' reasoning about cheating in exams. Also, it has aimed to study the relationship between the diseng...

Background: Moral disengagement consists of some cognitive mechanisms that people use them to reduce their negative feeling after doing an immoral behavior. Present study has aimed to study the frequencies of the mechanisms in the content of students' reasoning about cheating in exams. Also, it has aimed to study the relationship between the diseng...

Background and Aim: Moral disengagement includes the cognitive mechanisms which are formed in the doer's mind while performing unethical actions or deciding not to perform ethical actions, which influences the occurrence of unethical actions or not performing ethical behaviors. The Present study aims to narratively review the studies that have exam...

The role of students’ moral identity, mood and intelligence in mechanisms of moral disengagement

Some studies have revealed that most individuals tend to concentrate on others' morality and intelligence at their social perception. The present study aimed to examine the accuracy of these social perceptions in zero acquaintance condition. Nine female students who had high, low or average moral identity/intelligence were considered as targets and...

Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (Spereng, McKinnon, Mar and Levine, 2009) is a scale that has been made for measuring the general empathy among the Canadian university students. The aim of present study is validation of this questionnaire among the Iranian university students. So the Persian translated version of the Questionnaire beside subscale of...

Background: Moral disengagement is a variable in the social cognitive theory of morality and includes eight cognitive, psychosocial mechanisms by which moral self-sanctions are selectively disengaged from inhumane conduct. Objectives: The aim of the present study was to validate a university student replica of the moral disengagement scale among so...

The aim of administering the present investigation was the comparison between freshman university students of different fields of study in intelligence and identity styles at the first semester at 2014-2015. 212 freshman university students from Salman Farsi University of Kazerun were participated to the study and Cattell Intelligence Test III and...

The aim of present investigation is the study of relationships between religiosity and its dimensions (ritualistic, ideological, consequential and experimental) with different identity styles (informational, normative, and diffuse/avoidant) among the adolescent university students. Some questionnaires were administered on the 212 freshmen universit...

University students at their first semester experienced special stresses that can affect badly on their educational performance. The aim of present study was to investigate the relationship between student's educational performance and intelligence, identity styles, gender, different dimensions of mental health, mental health-related variables and...

Introduction: Despite the effects of inconstant and situational variables on aggression, relative constancy of aggression across life span was confirmed in some studies. The present study aimed to predict the university student’s aggression according to intelligence, temperament dimensions and attachment styles as constant individual variables. Met...

One of the explainer theories of aggression is frustration-aggression theory. One of the sources of frustration in students is academic frustration. Studies revealed that the high intelligence and academic self efficacy can make academic success and predict the academic frustration. The aim of present investigation was study of the relationship bet...

The aim of present investigation is the study about effectiveness of teaching “philosophy for children” (P4C) on student’s moral development. In order to this aim two classroom in grade five in a primary and male school were selected by random selection. One of these classrooms as experimental group taught in 9 session of P4C. 16 students in any cl...

The aim of present investigation was studying the effectiveness of “Teaching Learning and Study Strategies” and “Self-instructional Method” on reducing test anxiety among population of 5th grade female school students with test anxiety in Bandare Khamir (Hormozgan state, Iran). Three primary female schools in Bandare Khamir were selected by availab...

The existence of positive relationship between moral activities and mental health has been established in some studies; however, there are different types of moral-related variables as well as mental health-related ones. The aim of present study was to examine the probable relationship between them. A body of 212 university freshmen completed quest...

Background: According to the criteria of personality disorders, some disorders, especially the antisocial personality disorder, can be characterized by the hypo-morality and some disorders, especially the obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, can be characterized by the hyper-morality. It seems that both the hyper-morality and the hypo-moralit...

Background: According to the criteria of personality disorders, some disorders, especially the antisocial personality disorder, can be characterized by the hypo-morality and some disorders, especially the obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, can be characterized by the hyper-morality. It seems that both the hyper-morality and the hypo-moralit...

The existence of a positive relationship between moral activities and mental health has been established in some studies; however, there are different types of moral-related variables as well as mental health-related ones. The present study is aimed at examining the probable relationship between them. A body of 212 university freshmen completed que...

This study examined the relationships between intelligence, moral identity and prosocial moral reasoning with the mediating role of moral identity. From the population of undergraduate university students of Salman Farsi University of Kazerun, 245 students (163 female and others male) were selected by convenience sampling. They completed the q...

Identity styles predicted many psychological variables among adolescents in previous studies. The aim of present study was examining the relationships between identity styles and aspects of morality among late adolescents. The measures for examining the prosocial behaviors (public, compliant, emotional, dire, anonymous, altruistic), prosocial moral...

Altruism is a concept that has been defined and explained differently in the view of psychologists. One the important discussion in moral psychology is viewing to moral behaviors as altruistic or egoistic. But, the goal of helping or moral behavior often was interpreted as egoistic in the history of psychology. Today many researchers in psychology...

The complex nature of borderline personality disorder, review and development of new treatments will be required. This study aimed at intervening the subjective well-being and reducing impulsive behaviors of men with borderline personality disorder: Efficiency and effectiveness cognitive analytic therapy was administered. This was a pilot study and...

Moral heuristics are intuitive rule of thumb that is used in routine moral dialogues. However these heuristics respond to moral dilemmas rapidly and often correctly, but applying that without deliberation and reasoning make some errors in moral decision makings. Now what are the considerations and limitations of moral heuristics for human’s moral t...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between prosocial moral reasoning and several prosocial behaviors, with controlling the effects of social desirability and lie/irrelative responding. One hundred twenty eight undergraduate students from Salman Farsi university of Kazerun responded to the Measure of Prosocial Moral Re...

Gender difference of moral reasoning was one the subject of studies in moral psychology. But study the gender difference in other moral-related variables were less studied. The aim of present study was the study of gender differences in some prosocial behavior (public, compliant, emotional, dire, anonymous and altruistic behaviors) and some other m...

The aim of this investigation is to study the empirical examination of stereotypic ideas about intelligence differences in female and male university students, also intelligence differences in students who study unpopular course and students who study popular course. In order to this aim by purposive sampling and after counseling with professors an...

Introduction: The aim of present investigation is studying the relationship between social desirability and intelligence, age, grade, symbolization and internalization subscales of moral identity at both known and Anonymous situations, and also social desirability gender comparing. Methode: In the first study the form A of Cattell Culture Fair Inte...

Moral identity is a self-concept about moral values and “The Self-importance of Moral Identity”(Aquino, Reed, 2002) is a scale to measure this construct in its two dimensions, namely; internalization and symbolization. In this research, as the first step, translation validity and face validity of the measure were discussed and modified. As the seco...

Measure of Prosocial Moral Reasoning (PROM-R) assesses 5 types of prosocial moral reasoning. Besides considering measurement model with 5 latent variables, other different factor models for this measure can be considered. The present study was designed for examining validity and studying these measurement models on Iranian. PROM-R was administered...

The aim of the present study was to examine the validity of Prosocial Tendency Measure (PTM) in Iranian students. This scale measures 6 types of prosocial tendencies including altruistic, anonymous, dire, emotional, compliant and public prosocial tendencies (Carlo and Randal, 2002). We used 182 undergraduate students in order to study the validity...

The aim of this study was designing and testing a model for precedents of prosocial behavior in students of Shahid Chamran University in Ahvaz. In this model, empathy is independent variable that directly and indirectly predicted prosocial behaviors by mediation of religiosity, moral identity and prosocial moral reasoning using AMOS. 438 undergradu...