Vol. 32 (2022)
Artículos de investigación

Diagnosis of moral competence and gender difference of university students

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  • Víctor Hugo Robles Francia,
  • Adriana Mariela de la Cruz-Caballero ,
  • Víctor Adrián Robles-Ramos ,
  • Judith Banda-Guzmán
Víctor Hugo Robles Francia Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco
Adriana Mariela de la Cruz-Caballero
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7155-5204 (unauthenticated) Tecnológico Nacional de México. Campus Centla
Víctor Adrián Robles-Ramos
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3949-7176 (unauthenticated) Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo
Judith Banda-Guzmán
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0816-1653 (unauthenticated) Universidad de Guanajuato

Published 2022-03-02

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Diagnosis of moral competence and gender difference of university students. (2022). Acta Universitaria, 32, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.15174/au.2022.3355

Abstract

Moral competence is fundamental in university students, therefore, its effective measurement, based on the moral emotions that drive moral behavior, is essential. The objective of this research was to carry out the evaluation of moral competence in students of the University of Guanajuato in Mexico and to compare the level of this competence between women and men. The moral emotional test (MET), designed using moral emotions, was applied to a sample of 270 participants, 167 women and
103 men. The results showed a population value of moral competence of 32.85, and the Mann-Whitney U test produced significance values higher than 0.05 in gender. It is concluded that the level of moral competence of the participants obtained a medium value, and that men and women equally develop cognitive and emotional skills to act in the right way.

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