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Moral Identity, Key Points - Coggle Diagram
Moral Identity
Moral Identity
(Aquino & Reed, 2002; Aquino et al., 2009)
One of our many identities
The degress to which people consider being moral an important part of who they are.
The cognitive schema that people hold about their moral character.
Characteristics of a Moral Person
(Aquino & Reed, 2002)
Hardworking, fair, honest, helpful, caring, compassionate, friendly, kind, and generous.
Measuring Moral Identity
(Aquino & Reed, 2002)
Participants are presented with teh 9 traits.
Visualised a person with these characteristics.
Moral Identity and Moral Behaviour
Kavussanu et al., 2013, 2015; Sage et al., 2016)
Athletes with a strong moral identity report
more frequent prosocial and less frequent antisocial behaviour.
Moral Identity and Doping
(Kavussanu and Ring 2017)
Aim
Does moral behaviour identity predict doping likelihood via moral disengagement and guilt?
Participants
Athletes from a variety of team sports completed questionnaires.
Moral Disengagement and Moral Identity
Moral Disengagement
Doping is acceptable because it helps the team
Doping does not really hurt anyone.
Moral Identity
(Adapted to sport)
Being a player wo has moral identity characteristics is an important part of who they are.
It will make a player feel like a good teammate if they have these characteristics.
Key Points
Suport for Bandura's (1991) theory
Athletes who tend to morally disengage are at risk of using banned substances.
Moral disengagement is likely to reduce anticipated guilt for using banned substances.
Strengthening moral identity could protect athletes from doping.