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In general, a person that is well-adjusted will have the following characteristics: An understanding of personal strengths and weaknesses and a tendency to play up strengths while limiting the appearance of weaknesses; Personal respect and appreciation, a well-adjusted individual finds themselves to be inherently valuable
In order to have moral character, we must understand what contributes to our overall good and have our spirited and appetitive desires educated properly, so that they can agree with the guidance provided by the rational part of the soul. According to Plato, Moral Character is directly linked to and understanding contributions to the overall good.
Moral behavior is also studied under the umbrella of personality psychology. Topics within personality psychology include the traits or individual differences underlying moral behavior, such as generativity, self-control, agreeableness, cooperativeness and honesty/humility, [121] [122] [123] as well as moral change goals, [124] among many other ...
Typically, emotions are generally adaptive responses which allow an individual to have the flexibility to change their emotion based on the demand of their environment. Emotional inertia refers to "the degree in which emotional states are resistant to change"; there is a lack of emotional responsiveness due to the resistance of external ...
The moral self results when people integrate moral values into their self-concept. [15] Research on the moral self has mostly focused on adolescence as a critical time period for the integration of self and morality [16] (i.e. self and morality are traditionally seen as separate constructs that become integrated in adolescence. [17]
Moral affect is “emotion related to matters of right and wrong”. Such emotion includes shame, guilt, embarrassment, and pride; shame is correlated with the disapproval by one's peers, guilt is correlated with the disapproval of oneself, embarrassment is feeling disgraced while in the public eye, and pride is a feeling generally brought about by a positive opinion of oneself when admired by ...
Moral injury is a relatively new concept that seems to describe what many feel: a sense that their fundamental understanding of right and wrong has been violated, and the grief, numbness or guilt that often ensues. Here, you will meet combat veterans struggling with the moral and ethical ambiguities of war.
Kohlberg established the Moral Judgement Interview in his original 1958 dissertation. [7] During the roughly 45-minute tape recorded semi-structured interview, the interviewer uses moral dilemmas to determine which stage of moral reasoning a person uses. The dilemmas are fictional short stories that describe situations in which a person has to ...