Moral Motivation as a Dynamic Developmental Process: Toward an Integrative Synthesis

Kaplan, Ulas

doi:10.1111/jtsb.12116

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“…Damon and Hart (1992) viewed moral identity as the best predictor of moral commitment and moral action, an argument that is supported by empirical research. For example, some studies have suggested that moral identity can positively predict the involvement of teenagers in community activities (Pratt et al 2003), as well as the prosocial behaviors of young adults (Kaplan 2017). The above findings indicate that there are close associations between moral awareness, moral identity, and moral conduct.…”

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Mindfulness Practice Makes Moral People More Moral

Xiao

Wang

2020

Mindfulness

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Objectives In prior studies, mixed results have been obtained regarding the relations between mindfulness, moral judgment, and prosocial behavior. We conducted two studies to better clarify the connections between mindfulness and several moral variables. Methods In Study 1, a cross-sectional survey (N = 554) was conducted to test the possible associations between mindfulness, moral sensitivity, moral identity, and prosocial behavior. In Study 2, a randomized controlled experiment was conducted to examine the impact of a mindfulness intervention on moral identity and prosocial behavior. A total of 99 participants (n = 49, mindfulness group; n = 50, wait-list control group), all of whom were undergraduate students on an optional 11-week mindfulness-based self-exploration course, were recruited via the campus network system. Results In Study 1, we found that mindfulness, moral sensitivity, moral identity, and prosocial behavior were all positively correlated. Results of the mediation analysis suggested that dispositional mindfulness had significant effects on prosocial tendencies both directly and indirectly via the mediator variables of moral sensitivity and moral identity. In Study 2, mindfulness practice was found to significantly improve the levels of mindfulness and self-compassion in participants but only had a significant effect on willingness toward prosocial behavior for those participants with existing high moral identity.Conclusions Study 1 confirmed the predicted links between mindfulness, moral sensitivity, moral identity, and prosocial behavior. Study 2 suggested that moral identity influences the effect of mindfulness practice on willingness toward prosocial behavior. However, the underlying mechanisms and causes of this effect require further study.

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Mindfulness Practice Makes Moral People More Moral

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2020

Mindfulness

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“…Conscious effort. This outlook distinguishes the volitional side of self-regulated processes from other automatic or more reactive forms of regulation, as intentional and conscious effort are displayed in order to resolve control demands that arise from the internal and external environments (Gestsdóttir & Lerner, 2007;Kaplan, 2017).…”

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Conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of Self-Regulation: An inquiry within Developmental Science

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Segretin

Lipina

2020

Rev. Arg. Cs. Comp.

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The present work intends to thoroughly identify theoretical and practical applications of self-regulation (SR) in contemporary developmental research, by reviewing conceptual and operational definitions of SR, in addition to the methods and instruments used to assess it in empirical studies. 468 scientific articles with cumulative evidence from the last two decades of research were included (142 reviews and 326 original research articles). Using a mixed-methods approach based on grounded theory methodology, the main theoretical and methodological aspects involved in the definition and operationalization of SR were reviewed. Results point towards a growing consensus in the conceptual definition of SR, which emphasizes the interrelation of emotional and cognitive control, goal-oriented activity, physiological and interpersonal processes. Empirical research often considers to diverse biologic, behavioral and social features in the operationalization of the concept, making use of report scales, performance tasks and, to a lesser extent, physiological and observational measurements.

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“…We are constantly busy with the question about who the I is that I am. A moral identity emerges from the long‐term self‐organization that informs concrete moral judgments (Kaplan, ). Life unfolds itself as a story of which the ‘I' is the protagonist.…”

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Making sense of the self: an integrative framework for moral agency

Pesch

2019

J Theory Soc Behav

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The self is conceptualized in a multitude of ways in different scholarly fields; at the same time moral agency appears to presuppose a unitary conception of the self. This paper explores this tension by introducing ‘moral senses’ which inform the normative evaluations of a person. The moral senses are featured as innate dispositions, but they inevitably recruit discursive categorizations in order to function. These senses forward both an ‘individual self’, by experiencing a unitary body, mind and character, and a ‘social self’, that is similarly experienced as a body, a mind, and a character. This social self is enabled by the capacity to internalize other people's feelings and intentions and the need to have otherworldly explanations for observable reality. This integrative framework of moral senses provides an understanding that helps to address the challenge of moral heterogeneity and plurality.

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Moral Motivation as a Dynamic Developmental Process: Toward an Integrative Synthesis

Cited by 9 publications

References 72 publications

Mindfulness Practice Makes Moral People More Moral

Mindfulness Practice Makes Moral People More Moral

Conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of Self-Regulation: An inquiry within Developmental Science

Making sense of the self: an integrative framework for moral agency

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