Children’s Moral Self as a Precursor of Moral Identity Development

2017 ◽  
pp. 73-88
Author(s):  
Tobias Krettenauer
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Moral Self

Consumer morality and moral consumption behavior: literature domains, current contributions, and future research questions

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Attila Yaprak ◽  
Melvin Prince
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Consumption Behavior ◽  
The Future ◽  
Made In

Purpose The literature on consumer morality and consumption is spread widely across many research streams and would benefit from grouping under selected themes so that scholars’ work can be guided by the compass of these themes. It is also important to add studies to each of these themes to serve as gateways that will guide new research. The aim of this special issue of the Journal of Consumer Marketing was to achieve precisely this purpose. The purpose of this paper is to open the gate to the exploration of the themes that today describe this landscape. Design/methodology/approach The paper assesses the contributions made in each of several domains to better understand, why and how moral consumption works, what its ingredients are and how it may grow in the future. There are at least four domains of morality and moral consumption studies as follows: the formation of the moral self and moral identity; moral identity and ethical consumption; moral reasoning (cognitive processes) and moral choice; and the moral self and marketing. Each of these domains of work provides insight into the moral consumption phenomenon. Findings The authors highlight the development of the moral self and underscore the significance of the relationship between identity development and the individual’s moral actions and by extension the significance of that relationship in moral consumption. Also, the paper adds to the current discussion on morality and ethical consumption by underscoring their interlinked nature and how that linkage can drive consumption behavior, highlight the cognitive processes involved in moral choices and how consumers reason to arrive at those choices. Finally, the authors provide examples of the workings of moral identity and reasoning in consumption contexts more directly. Originality/value Each of these morality and moral consumption domains of work provides unique insights into the moral consumption phenomenon; thus, it is important to disseminate the contributions made in each domain to better understand, why and how moral consumption works, what its ingredients are and how it may grow in the future. In this paper, the authors offer contemporary original samples of key contributions to each of these domains.

scholarly journals Questionnaire Data from the Revision of a Chinese Version of Free Will and Determinism Plus Scale

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing-Lan Liu ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
Wenjing Yan ◽  
Kaiping Peng ◽  
Jie Sui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Chinese Version ◽  
Control Belief ◽  
Just World ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Personal Belief ◽  
Self Image

We reported a questionnaire dataset accumulated from the revision of a Chinese version of Free Will and Determinism Scale Plus (FAD+). In this dataset, we collected data from 1232 participants. The questionnaires used in data collection included the FAD+ and 13 other widely-used questionnaires or tests (for example, the Big Five In-ventory, the Multidimensional Locus of Control, Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, the General and Personal Belief in a Just World Scale, the Chinese Disgust Sensitivity Scale, the Moral Identity Questionnaire, the Moral Self-Image Scale). The sample size for these questionnaires are different, ranging from 33 to 1100. Our preliminary analysis revealed that scores of these scales are reliable (Cronbach's alpha: .52 ~ .85, McDonald’s omega: .63 ~ .90). These data can be used for both research and educa-tional purposes, e.g., examining cultural differences and measurement invariance on belief in free will, locus of control, belief in just world. All data, together with their codebooks and manipulation code, are available at osf.io/t2nsw/

Am I Still Ethical? the socially-mediated process of nurses’ moral identity

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 623-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gweneth A Hartrick Doane
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Unpublished Research

In a recent, currently unpublished, research project that sought to examine the meaning and enactment of ethical nursing practice across a variety of clinical settings, the significance of moral identity was highlighted. This article describes the findings and illuminates how the moral identities of the nurse participants arose and evolved as they navigated their way through the contextual and systemic forces that shaped the moral situations of their practice. The study revealed the socially-mediated process of identity development and the narrative, dialogical, relational and contextual nature of nurses’ moral identities.

THE EMERGENCE OF HOLOCAUST MEMORIES IN THE MORAL DILEMMAS OF OBJECTING ISRAELI SOLDIERS DURING THE INTIFADA

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Linn
Keyword(s):  
Moral Identity ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Psychological Tools ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Israeli Soldiers

In the search for their moral identity, Israeli soldiers seem to have turned to their collective memories for guidance (Shapira, 1971, Young, 1989). This paper focused on this search among objecting reserve soldiers during the Intifada. It showed that Holocaust symbols and metaphors were being used as a frame of reference against which one's moral confusion was judged (Linn, 1991). As noted by Young (1989) “What is remembered of the Holocaust depends on how it is remembered, and how events are remembered depends in turn on the text now giving them form” (p. 1) The Intifada seems to create this text. The memories of the Holocaust, seem to provide the Israeli reserve soldier who is also the reader and the actor of and in this text, new psychological tools to assert his moral self.

Autobiography, Mediated Action, and the Development of Moral Identity

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark B. Tappan
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Nazi Party ◽  
Mediated Action ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Identity Continuity ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores a sociocultural approach to the development of moral identity, by considering the recently published autobiography of Ingo Hasselbach. Hasselbach, the founder (in 1991) of the National Alternative neo-Nazi party in East Germany, writes about his childhood and youth, how and why he embraced the neo-Nazi perspective, and how and why he ultimately repudiated the movement that he had helped to create. The analysis of Hasselbach’s story employs a “mediated action” approach to identity formation (Penuel & Wertsch, 1995; Wertsch, 1998). Such an approach entails taking human action as the starting point for the study of identity development, and understanding that mediated action, rather than an inner sense of identity, continuity, or sameness, provides the primary unit of analysis. In bringing a sociocultural perspective to bear on Hasselbach’s autobiographical narrative, this paper thus highlights the connections that emerge in his autobiography between his changing/developing sense of moral identity and his moral actions and interactions in the world. In so doing, it explores and explicates the relationship between Hasselbach’s moral identity and the sociocultural context in which it develops.

scholarly journals Understanding the Spread of Sustained Employee Volunteering: How Volunteers Influence Their Coworkers’ Moral Identity Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 014920632110508
Author(s):  
Michael J. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Moral Exemplars ◽  
Employee Volunteering

Employee volunteering has become a common phenomenon in many organizations. However, it is unclear how sustained volunteering spreads between colleagues. Drawing on an empirical study set in the English legal profession, this study examines the processes through which existing employee volunteers influence their coworkers to internalize a volunteer identity. The study yields a theoretical model that specifies how coworkers may identify existing volunteers as moral exemplars. Five forms of social influence emanate, often unknowingly, from these exemplars: encouraging, evoking, edifying, enacting, and exemplifying. These forms of social influence inform coworkers’ microprocess of moral identity work through which they claim a volunteer identity. This study thereby shifts attention from the well-theorized outcomes of moral identities to the largely unexamined social influences on moral identities in the workplace, enriching our understanding of the development of the moral self that is foundational to theories of volunteering and identity.

Moral Identity Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-144
Author(s):  
Sam A. Hardy ◽  
Tobias Krettenauer ◽  
Natasha Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media And Religion ◽  
Model Family

Moral identity theory and research emerged in the early 1980s and the field has grown ever since. In this chapter, the authors begin by reviewing the history of work on moral identity. They provide a framework for thinking about moral identity grounded in McAdams’s three levels of personality: traits, characteristic adaptations, and live narratives. Then the authors review research on moral identity development across the life span at these three levels of personality. Next, they review work on contexts of moral identity development, based on Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model: family, peers, schools, communities, cultures, media, and religion. Last, the authors outline five questions for future research.

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