The mediating role of school ethical climate in the relationship between character trait with academic destructive behaviors and academic citizenship behaviors

This study aimed to investigate the causal relationship between character trait, destructive academic behaviors  and citizenship academic behaviors with the mediation of perception ethical climate school. For this purpose, 671 (293 boys and 378girls) high school students of Shiraz were selected through multistage cluster sampling method. Three questionnaires were used to collect data, ethical climate school scale of shult et al. (2002), character trait scale of khormaei and ghaemi (2018), citizenship academic behaviors scale of golparvar (2011) and destructive academic behaviors scale of kashkoli (2017). Data was analyzed via path analysis using structural equation modeling. The findings corroborated the good fitness of the model with the research data. These results confirmed the significant relationship between character trait and destructive academic behaviors  and citizenship academic behaviors, and ethical climate school with destructive academic behaviors  and citizenship academic behaviors. also, the role of mediating the ethical climate school in the relationship between character trait and destructive academic behaviors  as well as citizenship academic behaviors was also confirmed. In sum, the results of this study show that character trait by affecting perception ethical climate school can lead to discrease destructive academic behaviors  and increase citizenship academic behaviors.