How Personality and Moral Identity Relate to Individuals’ Ethical Ideology

Brent McFerran · Karl F. Aquino · Michelle K. Duffy

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Ethics in Business and Education Personality Traits and Psychology Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

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Abstract Two studies tested the relationship between three facets of personality—conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness to experience—as well as moral identity, on individuals’ ethical ideology. Study 1 showed that moral personality and the centrality of moral identity to the self were associated with a more principled (versus expedient) ethical ideology in a sample of female speech therapists. Study 2 replicated these findings in a sample of male and female college students, and showed that ideology mediated the relationship between personality, moral identity, and two organizationally relevant outcomes: organizational citizenship behavior and the propensity to morally disengage. Implications for business ethics are discussed.

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