Longitudinal relations among Honesty-Humility, moral disengagement, and unethical behavior in adolescents: A between- and within-person analysis

IF 2.6 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Research in Personality Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104401

Zhen Guo , Ying Yang , Wenqi Li , Xiaonan Yao , Yu Kou

{"title":"Longitudinal relations among Honesty-Humility, moral disengagement, and unethical behavior in adolescents: A between- and within-person analysis","authors":"Zhen Guo , Ying Yang , Wenqi Li , Xiaonan Yao , Yu Kou","doi":"10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104401","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although low Honesty-Humility is associated with unethical behavior, few studies have examined this relation from the longitudinal perspective across late adolescence. The present study investigated the longitudinal relation between Honesty-Humility and unethical behavior, including whether moral disengagement served as a mediator of this relation at both the between- and within-person levels by using a three-wave data of 1,646 Chinese adolescents (<em>M<sub>age</sub></em> = 15.22). The results revealed that (1) Honesty-Humility and unethical behavior bidirectionally predicted each other at both levels; (2) Honesty-Humility indirectly predicted unethical behavior via moral disengagement at the between-person level but not at the within-person level, and Honesty-Humility indirectly predicted moral disengagement via unethical behavior at both levels. Honesty-Humility and unethical behavior are indeed developmentally and dynamically intertwined.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48406,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Personality","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 104401"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Research in Personality","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656623000636","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Although low Honesty-Humility is associated with unethical behavior, few studies have examined this relation from the longitudinal perspective across late adolescence. The present study investigated the longitudinal relation between Honesty-Humility and unethical behavior, including whether moral disengagement served as a mediator of this relation at both the between- and within-person levels by using a three-wave data of 1,646 Chinese adolescents (M_age = 15.22). The results revealed that (1) Honesty-Humility and unethical behavior bidirectionally predicted each other at both levels; (2) Honesty-Humility indirectly predicted unethical behavior via moral disengagement at the between-person level but not at the within-person level, and Honesty-Humility indirectly predicted moral disengagement via unethical behavior at both levels. Honesty-Humility and unethical behavior are indeed developmentally and dynamically intertwined.

查看原文本刊更多论文

青少年诚实谦卑、道德脱离与不道德行为的纵向关系:人与人之间的分析

尽管低诚实谦逊与不道德行为有关，但很少有研究从青春期晚期的纵向角度来检验这种关系。本研究调查了诚实谦逊与不道德行为之间的纵向关系，通过对1646名中国青少年（Mage=15.22）的三波数据分析，包括道德脱离是否在人与人之间和人与人内部两个层面上起到了中介作用；（2）诚实谦逊通过人与人之间的道德脱离而间接预测了不道德行为，而不是在人与人内部的道德脱离，诚实谦逊通过两个层面的不道德行为间接预测了道德脱离。诚实谦逊和不道德行为确实是发展和动态交织在一起的。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Research in Personality PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

CiteScore

5.40

自引率

6.10%

发文量

102

审稿时长

67 days

期刊介绍： Emphasizing experimental and descriptive research, the Journal of Research in Personality presents articles that examine important issues in the field of personality and in related fields basic to the understanding of personality. The subject matter includes treatments of genetic, physiological, motivational, learning, perceptual, cognitive, and social processes of both normal and abnormal kinds in human and animal subjects. Features: • Papers that present integrated sets of studies that address significant theoretical issues relating to personality. • Theoretical papers and critical reviews of current experimental and methodological interest. • Single, well-designed studies of an innovative nature. • Brief reports, including replication or null result studies of previously reported findings, or a well-designed studies addressing questions of limited scope.