Supplemental Material for Does Moral Identity Effectively Predict Moral Behavior?: A Meta-Analysis

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Identity ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Moral Behavior

Does Moral Identity Effectively Predict Moral Behavior?: A Meta-Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven G. Hertz ◽  
Tobias Krettenauer
Keyword(s):  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Psychological Constructs ◽  
Education Marketing ◽  
Lower Effect

This meta-analysis examined the relationship between moral identity and moral behavior. It was based on 111 studies from a broad range of academic fields including business, developmental psychology and education, marketing, sociology, and sport sciences. Moral identity was found to be significantly associated with moral behavior (random effects model, r = .22, p < .01, 95% CI [.19, .25]). Effect sizes did not differ for behavioral outcomes (prosocial behavior, avoidance of antisocial behavior, ethical behavior). Studies that were entirely based on self-reports yielded larger effect sizes. In contrast, the smallest effect was found for studies that were based on implicit measures or used priming techniques to elicit moral identity. Moreover, a marginally significant effect of culture indicated that studies conducted in collectivistic cultures yielded lower effect sizes than studies from individualistic cultures. Overall, the meta-analysis provides support for the notion that moral identity strengthens individuals’ readiness to engage in prosocial and ethical behavior as well as to abstain from antisocial behavior. However, moral identity fares no better as a predictor of moral action than other psychological constructs.

On properly characterizing moral agency

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blaine J. Fowers ◽  
Austen R. Anderson ◽  
Samantha F. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Situational Influences

AbstractDoris (2015b) develops a theory of moral agency to avoid a skeptical challenge arising from psychology studies indicating that (im)moral behavior is caused by trivial situational factors. His theory is flawed in attending only to situational influences on behavior and neglecting individual differences such as moral identity and virtue. A focus on individual differences in resilience to influence from trivial situational factors defangs the skeptical challenge and offers a better account of moral agency.

Linking Moral Identity With Moral Emotions: A Meta-Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Paul Lefebvre ◽  
Tobias Krettenauer
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Moral Emotions ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Moral Functioning ◽  
Moral Anger ◽  
Other Regarding ◽  
The Relationship

This meta-analysis examined the relationship between moral identity and moral emotions drawing on 57 independent studies. Moral identity was significantly associated with moral emotions, r = .32, p < .01, 95% confidence interval [CI: .27, .36]. Effect sizes were moderated by the type of moral emotion. Studies reporting other-regarding emotions (sympathy, empathy, and compassion) had the largest effect sizes ( r = .41), while negative other-evaluative emotions (moral anger, contempt, and disgust) had the smallest ( r = .16). Self-evaluative and other-evaluative positive emotions had intermediate effect sizes ( r values between .29 and .32). The type of emotion measure also was a significant moderator, with trait measures of emotion ( r = .38) correlating more strongly with moral identity than state measures ( r = .24). Effect sizes did not differ for the type of moral identity measure being used, publication status, or cultural origin of the study sample. The results of this meta-analysis demonstrate a robust empirical connection between moral identity and moral emotions, which confirms the multifaceted role of moral identity in moral functioning.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Moral Climate of Sports and the Moral Behavior of Young Athletes: A Multilevel Meta-analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anouk Spruit ◽  
Maria Kavussanu ◽  
Tim Smit ◽  
Marlous IJntema
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Young Athletes ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Does recalling moral behavior change the perception of brightness? A replication and meta-analysis of Banerjee, Chatterjee, and Sinha (2012)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark John Brandt ◽  
Hans IJzerman ◽  
Irene Blanken
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Behavior Change ◽  
Individual Difference ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Unethical Behavior ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Replication Studies

Banerjee, Chatterjee, and Sinha (2012) recently reported that recalling unethical behavior led participants to see the room as darker and to desire more light-emitting products (e.g., a flashlight) compared to recalling ethical behavior. We replicated the methods of these two original studies with four high-powered replication studies (two online and two in the lab). Our results did not differ significantly from zero, 9 out of 10 of the effects were significantly smaller than the originally reported effects, and the effects were not consistently moderated by individual difference measures of potential discrepancies between the original and the replication samples. A meta-analysis that includes both the original and replication effects of moral recall on perceptions of brightness find a small, marginally significant effect (d = 0.14 CL95 -0.002 to 0.28). A meta-analysis that includes both the original and replication effects of moral recall on preferences for light-emitting products finds a small effect that did not differ from zero (d = 0.13 CL95 -0.04 to 0.29).This paper was published in Social Psychology:Brandt, M. J., IJzerman, H., &amp; Blanken, I. (2014). Does recalling moral behavior change the perception of brightness?: A replication and meta-analysis of Banerjee, Chatterjee, and Sinha (2012). Social Psychology, 45(3), 246-252.

Predictors of Moral Disengagement in Sport

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 646-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Light Shields ◽  
Christopher D. Funk ◽  
Brenda Light Bredemeier
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Moral Disengagement ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Moral Behavior ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletes ◽  
Moral Attentiveness

Researchers have made productive use of Bandura’s (1991) construct of moral disengagement (MD) to help explain why sport participants deviate from ethical ideals. In this study of intercollegiate athletes from diverse sports (N = 713), we examined MD in relation to other character-related variables: empathy, moral identity, moral attentiveness, and contesting orientations. We also examined whether moral attentiveness conforms to the pattern of “bracketed morality” found in moral reasoning (Shields & Bredemeier, 1995) and moral behavior (Kavussanu, Boardley, Sagar, & Ring, 2013). Results indicated that MD correlated positively with perceptual moral attentiveness and war contesting orientation; MD correlated negatively with empathy, moral identity, reflective moral attentiveness, and partnership contesting orientation. Results of hierarchical regression demonstrated that gender, contesting orientations, moral identity, and one form of moral attentiveness were significant predictors of MD. Finally, sport participants were found to be less morally attentive in sport than in everyday life.

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