role of emotional & cognitive empathy, moral metacognition & quality of life in predicting moral behavior of nurses

Background: today, ethics has become an integral part of human life and moral behavior plays an important role in improving the performance and effectiveness of organizations. as a result, this study aimed to determine the role of emotional and cognitive empathy, moral metacognition and quality of life in predicting moral behavior nurses. method: the present study was cross-sectional from type of correlation. the study population includes nurses the hospitals of varamin city in 2019 (n=359) which from them 200 nurses were selected as a sample by stratified random sampling method. data were collected by the questionnaires of emotional and cognitive empathy (reniers et al), moral metacognition (mcmahon & good), quality of life (who) and moral behavior (swanson & hill). data were analyzed by pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression with enter model methods in spss-19 software.results: the findings showed that emotional empathy, cognitive empathy, moral metacognition and quality of life had a positive and significant relationship with moral behavior of nurses. in addition, the variables of emotional and cognitive empathy, moral metacognition and quality of life were able to predict 56% of the changes in moral behavior of nurses (p<0.01). conclusion: according to the results, to improve the moral behavior of nurses, their emotional and cognitive empathy, moral metacognition and quality of life can be improved.