Author(s)

Manjia Gao ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Career Planning and Employment Guidance, Guangdong Vocational and Technical University of Business and Technology, Zhaoqing, China

Corresponding Author

Manjia Gao

ABSTRACT

This research investigated how mental health symptomology predict moral acceptance and determined the mediation effect of deontological tendency. The current research used self-report questionnaires to collect data from 2248 college students. We assessed their mental health symptomology and seven moral dilemmas adapted to Chinese culture to measure individuals’ moral acceptance. Also, we employed the process-dissociation task to measure the moral motivations of utilitarian and deontological tendencies, including seven incongruent and seven congruent moral dilemmas. Mediation analysis results indicate that the score in deontological tendency plays a mediating role between the specific mental health symptomologies (somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostile, paranoid) and moral acceptance. Individuals with lower mental health level were more likely to make more acceptance, while deontological tendency mediated the relationship between the path. When experiencing symptoms such as somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, or paranoia, individuals are more likely to rely less on deontological tendencies and exhibit more utilitarian behavior during the pandemic.

KEYWORDS

Mental Health Symptomology; Moral Judgment; Deontological Tendency; Process-dissociation Approach

CITE THIS PAPER

Manjia Gao, The Mental Health Symptomology Affect Moral Acceptance: The Mediation Effect of Deontological Tendency. Applied & Educational Psychology (2024) Vol. 5: 153-157. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2024.050521.

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