The relationships between personal values, moral foundations, religiosity and identity styles among adolescents
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The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between values, moral foundations, religiosity, and identity styles among adolescents. Therefore, high school male students were selected by cluster sampling method and were administered with Berzonsky Identity Styles Inventory (ISI), Schwartz Value Survey , Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ), and the Post-Critical Belief Scale (PCBS). Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. Results showed a significant positive correlation between informative identity style and symbolic religious thinking, while diffuse/avoidant identity style was associated with relativism and literal disaffirmation and also exhibited a significant negative correlation with inclusion of transcendence beliefs. Further, the results showed that the personal values of tradition and benevolence were associated with the beliefs of inclusion of transcendence (symbolic and literal affirmation). All of the moral foundations except care/harm had a significant negative association with literal disaffirmation. The sceptic students with higher scores in relativism and literal disaffirmation seem to have diffuse/avoidant identity style, avoiding or postponing the more profound confrontation with religious questions and norms in a religious country such as Iran.
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