Emotional Regulation Self-Efficacy Influences Moral Decision Making: A Non-Cooperative Game Study of the New Generation of Employees

Abstract

Scholars generally believe that personality characteristics and psychological factors influence individual moral decision-making. However, few have ever discussed specific psychological factors and characteristics having such influences. Based on the self-efficacy theory and the social identity theory, this paper has proposed, from the perspective of social cognition, that emotional regulation self-efficacy influences the moral decision-making of the new generation of employees and that the mediating effect of interpersonal trust and the regulating effect of communication also play a role in the decision-making process. This study has designed a “red-blue experiment” based on the complete static information model in the non-cooperative game theory so as to conduct an experimental and qualitative analysis for the new generation of employees and to explore the characteristics of psychological process, self-efficacy, and moral decision-making of the experimental population. Through analysis of the 138 data sources collected from the experiment, the results showed that emotional self-efficacy had a significant positive effect on moral decision-making (p < 0.01), emotional self-efficacy had a significant positive effect on interpersonal trust (r = 0.560, p < 0.01), and interpersonal trust had a significant positive effect on moral decision-making (r = 0.290, p < 0.01). The mediating effect was 0.163. The interaction terms of emotional regulation self-efficacy and communication effect had a significant negative effect on interpersonal trust (r = −0.221, p < 0.01). All the hypotheses proposed in this study are supported by experimental data and reveal the psychological mechanism of moral decision-making in the new generation of employees. The study has further shown that the moral education of the new generation of employees needs to focus on improving emotional regulation self-efficacy and enhancing interpersonal trust, which provides theoretical support for the moral education methods and paths of the new generation of employees.

Character Education and Student Morality : An Analysis of Personal Commitment, Goal Orientation, and Self-Efficacy

“…Goal Orientation (X 2 ) -0,193 0,276 0,377 e2 = 0,528 play pivotal roles in bolstering moral values. These findings corroborate prior research demonstrating the impact of Personal Commitment, Goal Orientation, and Self-efficacy on Morality (Pramudiati & Aziz, 2021;Hardi et al, 2018;Laksono & Sukirman, 2019;Natalina & Sukriani, 2020;Passini, 2014;Baluku & Otto, 2019;Zaman et al, 2018;Khusnah & Jannah, 2021;Junusi, 2021;Urban & Galawe, 2020;Liu et al, 2022;Derr & Morrow, 2020;Haji-Othman et al, 2021;Rullo et al, 2022;Li et al, 2023). However, it is essential to note that there may be significant influences on morality from other unexamined factors or variables, representing a limitation requiring further investigation.…”