predicting moral behavior based on psychological well-being and attitude to time: the mediating role of the self-transcendence and fundamental values

Introduction: this study aimed to predict moral behavior based on psychological well-being and attitude to time, considering the mediating role of self-transcendence and fundamental values. materials and methods: the statistical population of this descriptive and correlational study consisted of all students of bu-ali sina university in hamadan-iran in the 2018-2019 academic year. the sample size was 372 students selected by the convenient sampling method. the instruments included psychological well-being (diener et al., 1985), attitude to time (mello and worrell, 2010), self-transcendence (levinson et al., 2005), researcher-made scale of moral behavior, and fundamental values scale (jason et al., 2001). data were analyzed by path analysis using spss-25 and lisrel.results: the results indicated that the proposed model has a good fitness with the empirical data (gfi= 0.95, ifi= 0.98, cfi= 0.95). the results showed that self-transcendence and fundamental values significantly mediate the relationship between moral behavior, psychological well-being, and attitude to time (p< 0.01). attitude to time and psychological well-being significantly affect moral behavior by mediating self-transcendence and fundamental values. conclusion: based on the findings of this research, the probability of performing moral behavior by people with psychological well-being and positive attitude to time can be predicted when people have fundamental values and gain knowledge about them. it is also necessary that these people have reached a level of self-transcendence. value and self-transcendence connect moral behavior with psychological well-being and attitude to time and facilitate the possibility of moral behavior in social situations.