Will Creative Employees Always Make Trouble? Investigating the Roles of Moral Identity and Moral Disengagement

2017 ◽  
Vol 157 (3) ◽  
pp. 653-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Zheng ◽  
Xin Qin ◽  
Xin Liu ◽  
Hui Liao
Keyword(s):  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
Moral Identity

Innocent cheaters: a new scale measuring the moral disengagement of marital infidelity

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Lișman ◽  
ANDREI CORNELIU HOLMAN
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Marital Relationships ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Total N ◽  
Dominant Strategies ◽  
Marital Infidelity ◽  
Attribution Of Blame ◽  
Moral Justifications

Marital infidelity is both socially perceived as immoral and very frequent. This contradiction might be explained through the process of moral disengagement, specifically by the use of certain socially shared moral justifications of infidelity, which consequently foster unfaithful behavior. This research developed and examined the Infidelity Moral Disengagement Scale (IMDS), aiming to capture the strategies of morally legitimizing infidelity used among people engaged in marital relationships. Across two studies (total N = 609 married participants) we investigated the dimensions and psychometric properties of the IMDS. Results showed that the dominant strategies of legitimizing marital infidelity are the diffusion of responsibility, the attribution of blame on the cheated partner, advantageous comparisons with other immoral acts, justifying infidelity through certain benefits, and minimizing its negative consequences. The IMDS emerged as negatively related to moral identity and strongly associated to people’s past infidelity and to their tendency to engage in unfaithful behaviors.

School Climate and Adolescents’ Cyberbullying Perpetration: A Moderated Mediation Model of Moral Disengagement and Friends’ Moral Identity

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051986008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingchao Wang ◽  
Fengqing Zhao ◽  
Jiping Yang ◽  
Li Lei
Keyword(s):  
School Climate ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Climate Scale ◽  
Indirect Relationship

Based on an integration of the positive youth development model and the social cognitive theory, friends’ moral identity was examined as a moderator of the direct and indirect relations between school climate and adolescent’s cyberbullying perpetration via moral disengagement. Participants were 404 Chinese adolescents ( Mage = 13.53 years, SD = 0.92). They completed the Perceived School Climate Scale and the Moral Identity Scale and nominated up to three friends whom they considered to be their “best friend” in their classroom at Time 1. After 6 months, they completed the Moral Disengagement Scale and the Cyberbullying Scale at Time 2. Results showed that adolescents who experienced positive school climate were less likely to cyberbully others, which was mediated by their moral disengagement. Friends’ moral identity moderated the direct and indirect relations between school climate and cyberbullying perpetration. Specifically, the indirect relationship between school climate and cyberbullying perpetration through moral disengagement became nonsignificant for adolescents interacting with high moral identity friends. The direct association between school climate and cyberbullying perpetration was moderated by friends’ moral identity.

scholarly journals Morality in the flesh: on the link between bodily self-consciousness, morality and (dis)honest behaviour

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Scattolin ◽  
Maria Serena Panasiti ◽  
Salvatore Maria Aglioti
Keyword(s):  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Reward Sensitivity ◽  
Body Ownership ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Sense Of Ownership ◽  
Sense Of Power ◽  
Monetary Gain ◽  
High Sense ◽  
Counterintuitive Result

The sense of owning a body (ownership) and controlling its actions (agency) are two main pillars of bodily self-consciousness (BSC). Although studies suggest that BSC signals may influence morality, the direction of such remains unclear. To investigate this issue, we conducted an online study in which 658 participants completed BSC- and morality-related questionnaires, and undertook a task where they could cheat for monetary gain. We found that those with high sense of ownership, and low reward sensitivity, displayed both high moral identity and deception. This seemingly counterintuitive result supports the notion that people who feel highly moral allow themselves to act immorally. Moreover, we found that high agency was associated with increased moral identity in participants with higher levels of moral disengagement and sense of power. That BSC can differently affect moral identity and behaviour may inspire policies of contrast to immorality and dishonesty, based on changes of corporeal awareness.

scholarly journals Propensity to Corrupt Decisions of Pre-Candidates to the 2020 Brazilian Municipal Elections

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivanete Schneider Hahn ◽  
Eliane Schleder Cezar Bonatti ◽  
Anderson Antônio Mattos Martins
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
Deviant Behaviors ◽  
Unethical Decision Making ◽  
Individual Self

- Objective: to analyze the propensity for corrupt decision-making by pre-candidates for mayor and councilor, analyzing the 2020 Brazilian municipal elections. - Theoretical framework: the study is theoretically based on the behavioral aspect of corruption, as deviant behavior, as well as intrinsic and extrinsic motivations to corruption, which are subdivided into: propensity to unethical decision-making, individual self-control, moral identity, guilt, and disengagement moral. - Methodology: A quantitative, exploratory, and descriptive study was conducted. In the operationalization, a cross-sectional survey was used, with the data collected through a structured questionnaire applied to a valid sample of 115 pre-candidates for the 2020 municipal elections. The data analysis used univariate and bivariate statistical techniques. - Results: (1) a sample have low propensity for unethical decision-making, high individual self-control, high moral identity, low guilt, and low propensity for moral disengagement; (2) there is a significant and positive association between the variables of individual self-control with guilt, moral disengagement; and moral identity is shown to be positively associated with moral disengagement, and moral disengagement positively with the variable of having a previous elective position or not. - Originality: The main contribution of the research is the analysis of the theme on municipal legislators and executors, in the version of pre-candidates. - Theoretical and practical contributions: (1) low representation of women even as pre-candidates; (2) the sample considers the ‘other’ pre-willing politicians to make unethical decision-making, but not themselves; (3) sample with a high capacity for self-control, especially the part of the sample that did not have a previous elective position; (4) women have a higher degree of guilt than men, that is, they are less disposed to unethical decisions or corruption; (5) it can be said that the sample has a low propensity to deviant behaviors, that is, corruption.  

scholarly journals On moral grounds: Moral identity and moral disengagement in relation to military deployment

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-375
Author(s):  
Miriam C. de Graaff ◽  
Ellen Giebels ◽  
Desiree E. M. Verweij
Keyword(s):  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Military Deployment

scholarly journals Acquiescence or Resistance: Group Norms and Self-Interest Motivation in Unethical Consumer Behaviour

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2190
Author(s):  
Yongbo Sun ◽  
Jiajia Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Group Norms ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Altruistic Motivation ◽  
Behavioural Intentions ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Relationship

Understanding why consumers behave unethically has gained scholarly attention; many studies have examined it from psychological or social environmental perspectives. However, few studies provide the link between internal and external factors associated with unethical behaviours, and few studies explain why consumers ‘behave unethically knowingly’ in a China-specific context. Based on moral disengagement theory, the current research aims to provide a comprehensive developmental model to investigate how group norms and self-interest motivation affect consumers’ unethical behavioural intentions and to analyse the mechanism of ‘behaving unethically knowingly’. Findings from online surveys of 360 participants indicate that group recognition and an egoism motivation have positive effects on consumers’ unethical behavioural intentions, while group veto and an altruistic motivation have negative effects on unethical behavioural intentions; moral disengagement mediates the relationship between group recognition, group veto, egoism motivation, altruistic motivation and unethical behavioural intentions; moral identity negatively moderates the relationship between group recognition, altruistic motivation and unethical behavioural intentions. The theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.

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