The effect of moral emotions and moral identity as a mediator in the relationship between moral disruption and bullying in primary schools in Tehran.

In this study, the mediating role of moral emotion and moral identity in relation to moral disengagement and bullying has been investigated.

For this purpose, 486 students were selected through simple clustering and random sampling from among all the elementary and high school students in Tehran. There were 254 male and 232 female students. This study was conducted using path analysis method with the help of spss22 and PLS-SEM software.

Both research hypotheses have been confirmed and it has been shown that moral identity and moral emotion both have a mediating role in the relationship between moral Disengagement and bullying.

Therefore, it can be concluded that according to the concept of the moral agency from Bandura's social cognitive theory, emotional factors should be considered in addition to cognitive factors and moral reasoning in order to examine the moral behavior of individuals.Keywords: Bullying, Moral Disengagement, Moral Emotion, Moral Identity.