Mr Hamidreza Koohestani, Mrs Nayereh Baghcheghi, Mr Mahdi Birjandi, Mr Hadi Ahmadi, Mrs Sara Afrazandeh,
Volume 0, Issue 0 (9-2025)
Abstract
Abstract
Moral sensitivity, as the foundation of nursing ethics, should be considered from the beginning of nursing education. It is expected that some individual variables, such as self-compassion and emotional intelligence, have a relationship with the variable of moral sensitivity. The aim of present study is to investigate the predictive value of self-compassion and emotional intelligence on moral sensitivity of nursing students of Birjand University of Medical Sciences.The present study was descriptive and correlational. The target population was the nursing students of Birjand University of Medical Sciences, 263 of whom were included in the study by census method. The research tools included checklist of individual characteristics and standard questionnaires of Raes self-compassion, emotional intelligence of Bradbury and Graves, and nurses moral sensitivity of Lutzen. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical tests in SPSS version 19 software. The results of the study showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between moral sensitivity and emotional intelligence (r=0.37, p<0.01). no significant relationship was observed between moral sensitivity and self-compassion (r=0.44, p <0.05). The stepwise multiple regression analysis also showed that emotional intelligence as a predictor variable alone explains 13% of the variance of moral sensitivity (p < 0.001), while self-compassion does not have a significant contribution in predicting moral sensitivity (p > 0.05). The key conclusion is that emotional intelligence can predict the moral sensitivity of nursing students, suggesting that emotional intelligence training should be incorporated into nursing curricula and effective teaching methods should be explored.
