Growing Toward Care: A Narrative Approach to Prosocial Moral Identity and Generativity of Personality in Emerging Adulthood

Pratt, Michael W.; Arnold, Mary Louise; Lawford, Heather L.

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“…Hart and Fegley (1995) found that adolescent moral exemplars were more likely to describe aspects of their self, personality, and goals using moral personality traits than a non-exemplar comparison group (see also Reimer, DeWitt Goudelock, & Walker, 2009). Similarly, research using life stories in emerging adults (Pratt, Arnold, & Lawford, 2009) showed that moral identity (measured by investment in the needs and rights of others) was linked to prosocial behaviours (such as community service) and generative concern (desires, actions, and commitments related to caring for future generations).…”

Section: Moral Identitymentioning

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Phronesis and the Knowledge-Action Gap in Moral Psychology and Moral Education: A New Synthesis?

Darnell¹,

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This article has two aims. First, to offer a critical review of the literatures on two well-known single-component solutions to the problem of a gap between moral knowledge and moral action: moral identity and moral emotions. Second, to take seriously the rising interest in Aristotle-inspired virtue ethics and character development within the social sciences: approaches that seem to assume that the development of phronesis (practical wisdom) bridges the gap in question. Since phronesis is a multicomponent construct, the latter part of this article offers an overview of what those different components would be, as a necessary precursor to operationalising them if the phronesis hypothesis were to be subjected to empirical scrutiny. The idea of a neo-Aristotelian multicomponent solution to the “gappiness problem” invites comparisons with another multicomponent candidate, the neo-Kohlbergian four-component model, with which it shares at least surface similarities. Some space is thus devoted to the proposed theoretical uniqueness of a phronesis-based multicomponent model vis-à-vis the neo-Kohlbergian one. Our main conclusion is that – weaknesses in its developmental psychological grounding notwithstanding – operationalising the phronesis model for the purposes of instrument design and empirical inquiry would be a feasible and potentially productive enterprise.

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Section: Moral Identitymentioning

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Phronesis and the Knowledge-Action Gap in Moral Psychology and Moral Education: A New Synthesis?

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“…Such a pattern would be consistent with Erikson's () ideas that successful resolution of prior issues (such as identity) provides the capacity to deal successfully with subsequent periods of personality development (such as generativity). Some support for this argument comes from Pratt, Arnold, and Lawford (). In their longitudinal study, they reported that moral identity in adolescence predicted greater generative concern in emerging adulthood.…”

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Environmentalism as a Context for Expressing Identity and Generativity: Patterns Among Activists and Uninvolved Youth and Midlife Adults

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Previous qualitative studies have identified themes of generativity and identity development in the interviews of environmental activists (Chan, 2009; Horwitz, 1996), suggesting their importance as motives for environmental behavior. The purpose of our study was to extend this work by identifying positive relationships between identity maturity, generativity, and environmentalism using quantitative methodologies. To explore these relationships, we designed quasi-experimental and correlational studies. We recruited 54 environmental activists and 56 comparison individuals, half of whom were youth (mean age = 22 years) and the other half midlife adults (mean age = 43 years). Sixty-three percent of our sample was female. Participants completed several environmental, generativity, and identity questionnaires. We found that activists and comparison individuals differed on the identity maturity, generativity, and environmental measures overall. Further, greater identity maturity and generativity were associated with higher environmental engagement. And generativity was found to mediate the relation between identity maturity and environmentalism. Our findings suggest that engaging in generative behaviors may be an important part of the process in forming an environmental identity and engaging in environmental actions.

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“…Empirical studies using a variety of methods have validated the role of moral identity as an important source of motivation for moral action. People with a greater sense of moral identity evidence more prosocial behavior (e.g., altruism and community involvement; Frimer & Walker, 2009;Hardy, 2006;Pratt, Hunsberger, Pancer, & Alisat, 2003), generativity (Pratt, Arnold, & Lawford, 2009), concern for others (including out-group members; Hardy, Bhattacharjee, Aquino, & Reed, 2010), and sustained moral commitments (Colby & Damon, 1992), and are less likely to engage in antisocial behavior (Barriga, Morrison, Liau, & Gibbs, 2001) and dishonesty (Aquino, Freeman, Reed, Lim, & Felps, 2009). However, most research has focused on outcomes that are very morally relevant such as these, so we know little about the role of moral identity in broader outcomes such as healthy or unhealthy psychological and behavioral outcomes.…”

Section: Moral Identity and Healthmentioning

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The Roles of Identity Formation and Moral Identity in College Student Mental Health, Health‐risk Behaviors, and Psychological Well‐Being

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Growing Toward Care: A Narrative Approach to Prosocial Moral Identity and Generativity of Personality in Emerging Adulthood

Cited by 54 publications

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Phronesis and the Knowledge-Action Gap in Moral Psychology and Moral Education: A New Synthesis?

Phronesis and the Knowledge-Action Gap in Moral Psychology and Moral Education: A New Synthesis?

Environmentalism as a Context for Expressing Identity and Generativity: Patterns Among Activists and Uninvolved Youth and Midlife Adults

The Roles of Identity Formation and Moral Identity in College Student Mental Health, Health‐risk Behaviors, and Psychological Well‐Being

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