From Goal Beliefs to Ethical Practice: Exploring the Mediating Role of Moral Resilience in Teachers’ Moral Awareness

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Abstract

Purpose:
This study aims to construct and validate a structural model of teachers’ moral action and psychological adjustment, exploring how teachers respond to institutional contradictions and moral tensions by drawing on internal values and psychological resources to cope with emotional stress and ethical challenges.
Design/Methodology/Approach:
622 elementary school teachers in Taiwan participated in a quantitative survey. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze the interactions and mediating mechanisms among five core construct.
Findings:
(1) Teachers’ goal values positively and directly influence relational integrity, adversity response, and other-oriented moral injury;
(2) Goal values indirectly affect moral relativism and other-oriented moral injury through adversity response and relational integrity;
(3) Adversity response plays a significant protective role in mitigating moral injury.

Authors

• Shu-Jyun Liou, National Sun Yat-sen University

• Chih Ting Chang, National Sun Yat-sen University

• Shu Ching Yang, National Sun Yat-sen University