Moral Disengagement In Students (meanings and mechanisms )

Mahdi Shirzadeh¹ Farzaneh Michaeli Manee²

1) Master of Educational Psychology, Urmia University
2) Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Urmia University

IOI Code : XDDC-FDCAA
Publication : 1th National Conference on Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents (cpcauma.ir)
Abstract :
    Moral indifference represents a set of justification mechanisms that allow students to avoid the immoral nature of academic dishonesty behavior and make it a viable option; in fact, moral indifference allows individuals to rationalize their misbehavior. In fact, moral indifference is a set of cognitive mechanisms that separate a person s inner moral standards from one s actions and facilitate the performance of immoral behaviors without feeling distressed. At the beginning of this article, the meanings of moral indifference were discussed and then the mechanisms of moral indifference, which include 8 socio-cognitive mechanisms, were mentioned. It can be concluded that moral indifference plays an essential role in students success.

Keywords : moral disengagemen students meanings & mechanisms