روح الله دشتی اصفهانی

The ability to imagine mental events and possible future events and predict situations and needs, which is known as future thinking, plays a vital role for complex cognitive activities such as; It has planning, regulation of emotions, self-control and moral judgment. Therefore, this research was conducted with the aim of determining the relationship between Future thinking skills and moral judgment and self-control in children. In this descriptive study, the statistical population was Children in the first year of elementary schools in the 4th education district of Isfahan in 1400-1401, 230 of whom were selected by random cluster sampling and were asked questionnaires of prospective thinking, perceived self-control, and moral judgment questionnaires. They answered Data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient, multiple linear regression and independent t-test. The obtained results showed that the component of moral judgment as well as self-control with the future thinking questionnaire was at a significance level of P ˂. /01 respectively with a correlation coefficient of 55/. and 63/. It has a significant and positive relationship. Also, the regression results showed that moral judgment predicts 17% and self-control 21% of future thinking changes. Also, the t-test indicates a significant difference in the self-control component in both boys and girls.

The ability to anticipate future situations and needs, known as prospective cognition, is an important skill that children must develop in order to function and plan successfully on a daily basis. The aim of this study was to Investigating of Children's Future Thinking Questionnaire (CFTQ).This questionnaire has 44 items and was created in 2020 by Mazachowski and Mahy.

The present study is a non-experimental study that has been conducted within the framework of a descriptive-analytical research project. The statistical population of the study was the children of kindergartens in military residential settlements in isfahan in 1400. A sample of 200 people was selected by available sampling method. The validity, reliability and structure of the questionnaire were analyzed using by statistical methods of confirmatory factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha, open test coefficient and in SPSS software.

In this study, reliability was obtained by internal consistency method equal to ./89 and retest coefficient with three-week interval was equal to ./84. In the second-order confirmatory factor analysis, the scale structure and all 5 subscales of the test along with its significant factor loads were confirmed.

The results showed that the CFTQ questionnaire has good validity, reliability and structure.