Designing the development model of academic moral behavior of primary school students

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1 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education & Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

2 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education & Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

10.22081/jare.2025.70936.2008

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The aim of the current research was to design the model of the development of the academic moral of elementary school students based on the grounded theory of the foundation, which used the qualitative method, the systematic model, and based on the 2012 Creswell model. The participants in the current research were university professors with specialists in education and ethics. Sampling was purposeful and theoretical saturation was achieved after 12 interviews and continued until 16 interviews. Validity of the findings was obtained from the method of triangulation and coordination between the interviewee, the interviewer and the grounded theory expert. The results of qualitative data analysis of open, central and selective coding show that 406 primary conceptual propositions with 51 sub-categories and 21 main categories in the form of 6 dimensions of the paradigm model include:the main phenomenon (growth of academic ethics), Causal factors (family, school, teacher, media, observational learning, curriculum content), contextual conditions (needs assessment, pathology, underlying opportunities, underlying individual characteristics), strategies (strategies related to family, school, educational, motivational and related strategies to teaching), intervening conditions (value factors, technological factors and social factors) and consequences (individual and social) were identified. The integration of categories based on the existing relationships between them, around the development of academic ethics, forms a conceptual model that reflects the pattern of the development of academic ethics of primary school students, and finally paying attention to these phenomena is effective in the development of academic ethics of elementary school students.

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  • Receive Date: 31 January 2025
  • Revise Date: 14 March 2025
  • Accept Date: 25 March 2025

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