The EQUIP Program: Teaching youth to think and act responsibly through a peer helping approach

Gibbs, John C.; Potter, Granville Bud; Goldstein, Arnold P.

doi:10.1037/e552692012-085

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“…Sykes and Matza (1957) identified five techniques of moral neutralization: Denial of responsibility, denial of victim, denial of injury, condemnation of condemners, and appeal to higher loyalty. Processes of neutralization have also been discussed under headings like moral disengagement (Bandura, 1986;Bandura et al, 1996) and self-serving cognitive distortion (Barriga and Gibbs, 1996;Gibbs et al, 1995). In their review article Ribeaud and Eisner (2010) discuss the extent to which these can be interpreted into one unified approach.…”

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Honesty in projects

Kvalnes

2014

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

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Honesty in Projects PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore how the concept of honesty can shed light on misreporting issues in projects. Research on honesty can be useful for practitioners and researchers in project management, in order to understand and counter the withholding and distortion of relevant information from projects. In moral psychology, dishonesty is often explained as a result of moral neutralization. The paper provides an account of how neutralization can lead to dishonesty in projects. Design/methodology/approachThe current study is based on a literature review of research on misreporting and dishonesty in projects, and of relevant generic studies of honesty. FindingsThe author concludes that the phenomenon of moral neutralization can explain dishonesty and misreporting in projects. Honesty can be encouraged by identifying attempts at moral neutralization, and rendering them unacceptable. At the core of this position is the view that the level of honesty amongst project members is most adequately understood and explained from a circumstance rather than a character approach. Research limitations/implicationsThe paper is based on a literature review, and needs to be supported by further empirical studies within project management. Practical implicationsThe suggested primacy of a circumstance approach to honesty implies that project practitioners should be aware of the phenomenon of moral neutralization. Even people of good moral character can become involved in neutralization, in order to render misreporting acceptable. The central practical challenge can thus be to recognize tendencies of neutralization in one's own and other people's moral reasoning. Originality/valueThe main contribution of this paper is to introduce the concept of honesty in general, and the concept of moral neutralization in particular, to project management research and practice. The paper also suggests concrete ways to redirect attention from character to circumstances, based on more general research findings in social and moral psychology. Recent developments in social psychology point to a different understanding of the phenomenon of honesty, giving priority to the circumstances of decision making, rather than on character traits. In this paper I will argue that this empirically oriented circumstance approach, as outlined by Ariely (2010;, Mazar et al. (2008), Heath (2008, and Doris (2002) is where project management practice and research can find the most relevant input with regard to understanding and countering dishonesty. These contributions take into account a wide range of experiments and studies demonstrating how human decisions and behavior are crucially affected by aspects of the situation, rather than on individual character traits.

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Honesty in projects

Kvalnes

2014

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

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“…The effect of the perceived moral atmosphere in school on reallife moral judgement and behaviour may be particularly strong during adolescence, because during this phase acceptance by the peer group is of utmost importance for individuals (Eccles et al, 1993;Gibbs, Potter, & Goldstein, 1995). Researchers in different traditions have suggested that the moral atmosphere in school can have long-term consequences for students' development.…”

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Students' perception of school moral atmosphere: From moral culture to social competence. A generalizability study

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et al. 2004

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

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The School Moral Atmosphere Questionnaire (SMAQ) was constructed to measure differences in students' perception of school moral atmosphere between schools. The instrument is based upon the constructs defined by the Just Community Approach that focused on students' shared perspective and portrayed ideal types of school moral culture. This study presents reliability estimates of the SMAQ based on a generalizability study. A total of 1280 students from 32 normal secondary schools participated in the study. The design of the study includes the factors: type of school varying in educational level; school; grade level; class; and student. Variance components and reliabilities are estimated for two models. In Model 1 grade level is a fixed effect, in Model 2 grade level is a random effect. The results indicate that moral atmosphere in school can be measured reliably, although in Model 2 a considerable number of observations may be needed. Because score levels for some subscales depend on the school type, reliabilities are higher for the entire population than for populations consisting of one particular school type. It is concluded that students' perception of moral atmosphere in normal secondary schools have a strong individual flavour. Perceived moral atmosphere should # 2004 Psychology Press Ltd

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“…The peer-helping approach of Gibbs et al (1995) contains the elements of such a programme. This group could also bene® t from treatment aimed at changing their habitual passive coping strategy into more effective coping skills (cf.…”

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Moral Judgement and Delinquency in Homeless Youth

Tavecchio¹

1999

Journal of Moral Education

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The EQUIP Program: Teaching youth to think and act responsibly through a peer helping approach

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Honesty in projects

Honesty in projects

Students' perception of school moral atmosphere: From moral culture to social competence. A generalizability study

Moral Judgement and Delinquency in Homeless Youth

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