Table 5.
Contribution of demographic variables, EF, and social cognition to moral reasoning maturity.
| Predictor | MR Maturity |
|
|---|---|---|
| ΔR2 | β | |
| Step 1 | 0.28∗∗∗ | |
| Age | 0.53∗∗∗ | |
| Step 2 | 0.05∗ | |
| Age | 0.37∗ | |
| Verbal fluency | 0.28∗ | |
| Step 3 | 0.06∗ | |
| Age | 0.23 | |
| Verbal fluency | 0.24∗ | |
| Affect recognition | 0.16 | |
| Third-order false beliefs | 0.22∗ | |
| Total R2 | 0.39∗ | |
| n | 76 | |
∗p < 0.05; ∗∗∗p < 0.001.