Withstanding Moral Disengagement: Moral Self-Efficacy as Moderator in Counterproductive Behavior Routinization

Withstanding moral disengagement: Attachment security as an ethical intervention☆

• We propose an ethical intervention with the potential to reduce unethical decision-making. • We challenge the relationship between moral disengagement and unethical decision-making. • We use attachment theory as the basis for the ethical intervention. • Individuals primed with attachment anxiety experience the usual effects of moral disengagement. • However, individuals primed with attachment...

Bystander behavior in bullying situations: basic moral sensitivity, moral disengagement and defender self-efficacy.

The aim of the present study was to investigate how basic moral sensitivity in bullying, moral disengagement in bullying and defender self-efficacy were related to different bystander behaviors in bullying. Therefore, we examined pathways that linked students' basic moral sensitivity, moral disengagement, and defender self-efficacy to different bystander behaviors in bullying situations. Three ...

Developmental precursors of moral disengagement and the role of moral disengagement in the development of antisocial behavior.

The purpose of the study was to advance our understanding of the developmental precursors of Moral Disengagement (MD) and the role of MD in the development of antisocial behavior from early risk among an ethnically diverse sample of 187 low-income boys followed prospectively from ages 1.5 to 17. Results indicated associations between early rejecting parenting, neighborhood impoverishment, and c...

Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement in the Exercise of Moral Agency

This research examined the role of mechanisms of moral disengagement in the exercise of moral agency. Regulatory self-sanctions can be selectively disengaged from detrimental conduct by converting harmful acts to moral ones through linkage to worthy purposes, obscuring personal causal agency by diffusion and displacement of responsibility, misrepresenting or disregarding the injurious effects i...

MORAL SUPERIORITY AND MORAL BEHAVIOR 1 Investigating the relationship between self-perceived moral superiority and moral behavior using economic games