Environmental agency, moral reasoning, and moral disengagement in adults

IF 1.8 3区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS
Giulia Gialdi, Antonella Somma, Sarah Songhorian, Nicole Bergamelli, Claudia Frau, Andrea Fossati
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ABSTRACTTo assess the relationships between environmental agency, prosocial moral reasoning, and civic moral disengagement, 544 community-dwelling adults were administered the image-based Environmental Agency Scale (EAS), the Prosocial Moral Reasoning Objective Measure (PROM), and the Civic Moral Disengagement Scale (CMDS). The EAS Agentic Self and Agentic Other dimensions proved to be reliable measures and showed adequate factor validity. Mean/median score comparisons between EAS Agentic Self Scale and Agentic Other Scale scores indicated that participants viewed society-level actions as more relevant than individual-level actions when environment defense is at issue. Partial correlation analysis results showed that environmental agentic self was grounded in individual differences in prosocial moral reasoning. Civic moral disengagement yielded negative associations with EAS Agentic Other Scale scores, providing further support to the relevance of moral disengagement process in environmental sensitivity. These results may improve our understanding of environmental agency and its connections with prosocial moral reasoning and moral disengagement.KEYWORDS: Climate changeself-agencyother-agencyimage-based taskprosocial moral reasoningmoral disengagement AcknowledgmentsThe authors wish to thank Alice Barchi for her help in collecting data.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/10508422.2023.2267705Data availability statementThe data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author.
环境作用、道德推理和成人的道德脱离
摘要以544名社区居民为研究对象,采用基于图像的环境代理量表(EAS)、亲社会道德推理客观测量量表(PROM)和公民道德脱离量表(CMDS)进行环境代理、亲社会道德推理和公民道德脱离之间的关系。EAS的“代理自我”和“代理他人”维度被证明是可靠的测量方法,并显示出足够的因素效度。EAS代理自我量表和代理他人量表得分的平均分/中位数比较表明,在环境保护问题上,参与者认为社会层面的行动比个人层面的行动更相关。偏相关分析结果表明,环境主体自我存在于亲社会道德推理的个体差异中。公民道德脱离与EAS代理其他量表得分呈负相关,进一步支持道德脱离过程与环境敏感性的相关性。这些结果可能会提高我们对环境代理及其与亲社会道德推理和道德脱离的联系的理解。关键词:气候变化自我-主体他人-主体基于图像的任务亲社会道德推理道德脱离作者感谢Alice Barchi帮助收集数据。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。补充材料本文的补充数据可在https://doi.org/10.1080/10508422.2023.2267705Data网站上获得。支持本研究结果的数据可从通讯作者处获得。
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Ethics & Behavior
Ethics & Behavior Multiple-
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