Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the prediction of moral judgment and ethical behavior in female students of ordinary and gifted schools in Gachsaran city based on personal-familial values ​​and moral meta-cognition.
Method: The research method is descriptive-correlational and in terms of purpose is applied research. The statistical population of this study included all high school students in Gachsaran city. 200 students were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The data collection tool was moral knowledge meta-cognitive knowledge questionnaire, moral reasoning, ethical behavior and personal values ​​(family-job). In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient, multiple regression coefficients and multiple regression analysis) were used.
Results: The findings showed that predictive variables (moral meta-cognitive knowledge and personal-family values), with the exception of job values, created a meaningful model for predicting students' moral reasoning. However, business values ​​did not predict moral judgment. But predictive variables (meta-cognitive knowledge and personal-familial values) have created a meaningful model for predicting students' ethical behavior (P≤0.001. (
Conclusion: Findings indicate that taking into account the need of society for learning and observing judgment and ethical behavior, attention to the knowledge of meta-cognition and personal-family values ​​can be effective in this regard