The Relationship between Hexaco Personality Traits and Non-Commitment to Civic Ethics: A Study of the Mediating Role of Human Agency in Students

The main purpose of the current research was the relationship between Hexako's personality traits and non-commitment to civic ethics: investigating the mediating role of human agency in students. The research method was descriptive-correlative in terms of data collection.which was conducted in the academic year of 1400-1401. The statistical population was all students of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Islamic Azad University, Mahabad branch (nursing and midwifery). Through Klein's rule (20 samples for each hidden variable), 200 samples were considered. The data collection tool was Hexaco de Vries' standard personality traits questionnaire (2013), Caprara et al.'s non-commitment to civil ethics questionnaire (2009) and Cote's human agency questionnaire (1997). The results of data analysis using the structural equation method in AMOS software showed that human agency has a mediating role in the relationship between the personality traits of honesty-humility, extroversion, agreeableness and openness to experience with non-commitment to civil ethics, but human agency has a mediating role in the relationship between The personality traits of excitability and tribalism did not play a role with lack of commitment to civil ethics. It was also found that there is a negative and significant relationship between the personality traits of honesty-humility, extroversion, pleasantness, conscientiousness and openness to experience with lack of commitment to civic ethics, but irritability did not show a relationship with lack of commitment to civic ethics, on the other hand, between personality traits Honesty-humility, extroversion, agreeableness and openness to experience had a positive relationship with human agency,