A Comparative Study of Empathy and Moral Disengagement between Psychology and Non-Psychology Students

This research aims to provide a study of moral disengagement and empathy on psychology and non-psychology professionals. As professional training is considered important contextual factor influencing these psychological capacities, psychology professionals explicitly focus on understanding emotions, cognition, behaviour, ethical responsibility and managing bias, in contrast to non-psychology professionals who may not receive systematic training in emotional processing or moral regulations. So, we collected data from 100 professionals, 50 from psychology and 50 from non-psychology, sample age range is 19-29 years old, we used one-way ANOVA. The finding highlights that both groups were largely similar across most dimensions of empathy and moral disengagement with the exception of perspective taking, dimension of empathy, suggesting psychology professionals may demonstrate a greater ability to cognitively understand and adopt different viewpoints for future research with large and more diverse sample, it may further explore how professional experience , years of practice and specific psychological training modalities influence empathy and moral reasoning.