Predictive models of biology students’ convictions towards bioethical issues

Yap-Figueras, Jeannemar Genevive

doi:10.1007/s40889-019-00072-0

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“…It can also be noted that comprehension of the four Bioethics principles, though it was improved after the Bioethics course, it cannot predict the students’ convictions nor moral disengagement. Though contrary to the results of Yap-Figueras ( 2019 ) that comprehension and convictions have negative associations with each other after the Bioethics class, moral disengagement may have played a role in mediating the personal factors and convictions as individuals may justify that their decision of doing damaging conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it as serving socially worthy or moral purposes (Bandura 1999 ). Since bioethical issues require decisions to be made with some extent of negative effect, students may justify these actions with moral justifications even if they have learned the principles.…”

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“…One (1) researcher-made validated instrument (bioethical issues moral disengagement instrument), two (2) adopted instruments (bioethics principles comprehension test and bioethical issues convictions test) and one (1) inventory instrument (exposure to media inventory) from Yap-Figueras ( 2019 ), and results from two standardized tests (Otis-Lennon School Ability Test and Cattel’s 16 Personality Factors Test) were utilized as data.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As a Christian nation, the Philippines is not exempted with dilemma regarding bioethical issues as the culture is deeply rooted on religious beliefs which can be traced from Spanish colonization era. Moreover, only a few higher education institutions in the country offer Bioethics as a separate course, while others introduce the bioethical issues as part of the general education or specialization courses while others offer it as an elective course (Yap-Figueras 2019 ). In the study, the target tertiary institution is offering Bioethics as a required course in the curriculum for B.S.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Another framework in which this study is grounded is based on the accepted predictive path models for comprehension of the bioethics principles and convictions toward bioethical issues by Yap-Figueras ( 2019 ). Considering only global personality factors, a model showed that participants’ sex had direct contribution to pre-convictions while verbal ability and exposure to media directly contribute to pre-comprehension.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Based on the aforementioned frameworks, this study focused on the convictions of students toward bioethical issues as influenced by personal variables such as sex, verbal ability, personality, and exposure to media (Yap-Figueras 2019 ), moral disengagement (Detert, Treviño and Sweitzer, 2008 ), and comprehension of the four bioethics principle. The proposed theoretical path model is shown in Fig.…”

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Biology students’ convictions and moral disengagement toward bioethical issues: a path analysis

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Yap-Figueras

2022

International Journal of Ethics Education

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Advances in science and technology has led to the rise of different issues in relation to human life and security as well as the environment. These issues also paved the way for the field of Bioethics with its principles aiming to uphold moral standards on these issues. This study aimed to test and modify the theoretical models of the factors influencing the conviction schemas of BS Biology Bioethics students of a state university toward bioethical issues. One hundred ten (110) undergraduate students were pre-tested and post-tested for comprehension of Bioethics principles, moral disengagement, and convictions toward bioethical issues. Identified personal factors were also retrieved for testing. Results showed that the Bioethics course has increased the participants’ comprehension of Bioethics principles, moral disengagement, and convictions. Stepwise multiple regression results revealed that anxiety, extraversion, exposure to media, and moral disengagement can predict pre-convictions. On the other hand, only moral disengagement was found to predict post-convictions. Furthermore, moral disengagement can be predicted by convictions before the course while anxiety, openness to change, and convictions were the predictors after the course. The proposed theoretical model was for tested goodness of fit using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and acceptance was based on the model fit criteria. Since the proposed model was not found to fit the data, this was revised based on the results of multiple regression and correlation among exogenous variables. Three models were constructed and found to fit the data adequately. These models show the direct and indirect effects of personal factors and moral disengagement on convictions. The mediating effects of moral disengagement and convictions to each other were also shown. Findings further imply that the ability to understand the principles does not influence convictions, but rather moral disengagement has a greater influence on the said factor. Improving moral education by integrating Bioethics to the curriculum is recommended to further strengthen the moral judgement and reasoning of students. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40889-022-00149-3.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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