The Effects Of Moral Identity And Moral Sensitiveness On Moral Behavior

Moral cognition model of Piaget and Kohlberg had effect on Moral psychology. However, as a result of focusing on the standard requirement and moral judgment, their theory had been queried. Along with the development of moral psychology, researchers kept on investigating the theme about what factors could influence moral behavior, pondering over the effects of other factors besides moral judgment. As the core of moral self, Moral identity comes down to the description of moral value and the anticipation of moral behavior. Moral sensitiveness was the ability of understanding and interpreting moral situations. Moreover, it was the perception of moral content in situation and the consciousness about how the behavior influenced others. The effect of moral sensitiveness on moral behavior has become the frontier research problem in the field of moral psychology. Based on overviews of former researches, this study aims to discuss the effect of moral identity, moral sensitiveness and situational factors on moral behavior. The results of this study were as follows:1. The revision of the college students'moral identity questionnaire had good reliability and validity, containing two dimensions:internalization and symbolization.2. The self-made college students'moral behavior questionnaire had good reliability an validity, containing seven dimensions:altruism, learning, morality, filial piety, respect, patriotic and love.3. Generally, the college students'moral behavior was good, but specific aspects had been developed unbalanced. Grade factors could effectively predict college students'moral behavior, Moreover, with grade increased, the development of moral behavior showed a rising trend.4. Moral identity was the intermediary variable of moral sensitivity and moral behavior.5. Situational factors and moral identity interactively influenced individual moral behavior:in the moral priming condition, the difference of moral behavior of the group that the score of the moral identity was much high, was significantly less than the lower; in the competition priming condition, there was contrary result. 6. Situational factors and moral sensitiveness interactively influenced individual moral behavior:in the moral priming condition, the difference of moral behavior of the group that the score of the moral sensitiveness was much high, was significantly less than the lower; in the competition priming condition, there was contrary result.