The Role of Attachment Styles and Emotional Self-awareness in Explaining the Moral Intelligence of Adolescents

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Page: 306-314

Zeinab Haji Mohammad Javadi¹, Mohammed Taghi Tabik², Mohamadreza Hasanzade Tavakoli³ (Department of Psychology, Quran and Hadith University, Shahr Ray, Iran¹ and Department of Psychology, Quran and Hadith University, Qom, Iran²,³)

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the role of attachment styles and emotional self-awareness in explaining the moral intelligence of adolescents. The research method was correlational. The statistical population of this research consists of first-year high school students who were studying in the academic year 2019-2020. A total of 200 students were selected using available sampling methods. Research tools included the emotional self-awareness questionnaire (Grant et al., 2002); attachment style (Hazan & Shaver, 1987); and moral intelligence (Lenink & Keel, 2011). Questionnaires were provided to students online. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean & standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Spearman’s correlation) with the help of SPSS software version 22. The results of the research showed that the variables of avoidant attachment style (β = -0.195, p < 0.001), secure attachment style (β = 0.407, p<0.001), and the total score of emotional self-awareness (β = 0.438, p>0.033) had an effective and significant role in explaining moral intelligence and other research variables did not have an effective and significant role.