Investigating the effect of moral perfectionism on online social behavior with the mediating role of online interpersonal trust and moral identity in students of the country's top sports talent Olympiad

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of moral perfectionism on online social behavior with the mediating role of online interpersonal trust and moral identity in students of the country's top sports talent Olympiad.Methodology: The research method is descriptive and field-based. The statistical population of the study included student-athletes of the country's student olympiads. Due to the infinity of the statistical population, the number of samples was 384 people according to Morgan's table and the sampling method was a multi-stage cluster. Research tools included Yang et al.'s (2015), Moral Perfectionism Questionnaire, Igres et al.'s Online Social Behavior Questionnaire (2018), Asura et al.'s online interpersonal trust questionnaire based on Mayer and Mishra model (2015), and Black and Reynolds's Moral Identity Questionnaire (2016). To ensure the validity of the questionnaires, the opinions and guidelines of experts in sports management science were used and their opinions were included in the final questionnaire.Results: The results showed that moral identity and online interpersonal trust play a mediating role in the relationship between moral perfectionism and online social behavior; Also, the structural model of the research showed a favorable fit according to the index value of GOF = 0.52.Conclusion: Therefore it is recommended that paying attention to ethics discussion, especially moral perfectionism and moral identity in schools and their teachings should be included for the development of desirable online social behavior in student-athletes.

Keywords

• "moral perfectionism
• "" online social behavior"
• " online interpersonal trust"
• "moral identity"
• "top talents olympiad"