CONSTRUCTING A NEW MORAL IDENTITY CENTRALITY MEASURE

The purpose of the series of studies described in this paper was to create a new measure of moral identity centrality (MIC), and to begin testing its psychometric properties. MIC refers to the extent to which moral concerns are central (i.e., important) to a person's self-concept, and it was important to create a new measure of this construct because a)theory suggests MIC is a major cause of moral behavior, but b) there are strong reasons to believe that current means of assessing MIC are flawed in various ways. The results of the studies described in this paper suggest that the current means of assessing MIC are indeed flawed, and at least one scale created and tested here might be a more useful measure of MIC than those that are currently used by psychologists.

Grantor dc:publisher

Wake Forest University

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• MEINDL, PETE Wyman

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/33494

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:wakespace.lib.wfu.edu:10339/33494