Learn to be Moral:An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Undergraduates'Potential Profile of Learning Engagement and Responsible Decision-Making
Responsible Decision-Making(RDM),as the key sub-skill of social-emotional competence,is beneficial for undergraduates'enhancing moral responsibility and making constructive choices.Learning engagement is an important predictor of students'competence development,so that by exploring the relationship between different learning engagement types and RDM,the practice approach will be established for universities to foster virtue through education.This study took 70 678 undergraduates from 101 universities as research objects,and adopted the latent profile analysis technique to explore undergraduates'types of learning engagement,and the prediction of these learning engagement types on RDM.Results indicated undergraduates'learning engagement was clustered as five kinds of student groups respectively characterized by"sparing no effort","relatively making some even efforts","interacting little with teachers","learning passively",and"being disengaged".These five profile groups showed significantly differences in RDM scores.By comparison,students sparing no effort performed the best RDM,and next were students relatively making some even efforts or interacting little with teachers,while students learning passively or being disengaged did worst.It is suggested that universities establish the better environment and atmosphere for undergraduates'making responsible decisions,strengthen their degree of learning engagement and sense of responsibility,and lead them into making more thorough and rational decisions.