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1) Moral character involves qualities like moral knowledge, reasoning, values and commitments that are displayed through behavior. It incorporates both personal and social aspects. 2) Researchers have identified several psychological components that make up moral character, including moral behavior, values, emotion, reasoning, identity, personality and metamoral traits. 3) Models of moral character components show similarities and differences are largely matters of emphasis. Moral character is concluded to be a multi-faceted phenomenon involving the interconnectedness of its psychological and behavioral aspects, with the level of character determined by how consistently these components co-occur during life challenges.

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Character Development Lesson 1.01 1

1) Moral character involves qualities like moral knowledge, reasoning, values and commitments that are displayed through behavior. It incorporates both personal and social aspects. 2) Researchers have identified several psychological components that make up moral character, including moral behavior, values, emotion, reasoning, identity, personality and metamoral traits. 3) Models of moral character components show similarities and differences are largely matters of emphasis. Moral character is concluded to be a multi-faceted phenomenon involving the interconnectedness of its psychological and behavioral aspects, with the level of character determined by how consistently these components co-occur during life challenges.

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Character

Development
Jonas Matheu D. Marquez
Moral Character
Damon (1988) identified six ways that social scientists have defined

morality: (1) an evaluative orientation that distinguishes good and bad

and prescribes good; (2) a sense of obligation toward standards of a

social collective; (3) a sense of responsibility for acting out of concern

for others; (4) a concern for the rights of others; (5) a commitment to

honesty in interpersonal relationships; and (6) a state of mind that

causes negative emotional reactions to immoral acts. This categorical

scheme may not accommodate all useful definitions, particularly the

more substantive definitions offered by philosophers and theologians,

but they reflect the wide variety of definitions and the need for an

explicit operational definition that can guide programming and research


Internal Focus of Moral Character
1. Ethical Sensitivity—the perception of moral and social

situations, including the ability to consider possible actions and

their repercussions in terms of the people involved;


2. Ethical Judgment—the consideration of possible alternative

actions and the rationale for selecting one or more as best;


3. Ethical Motivation—the selection of moral values most relevant

in the situation and the commitment to act on that selection;


4. Ethical Action—the ego strength combined with the

psychological and social skills necessary to carry out the selected

alternative.
Moral Anatomy
For Huitt (2000), moral character incorporates

the underlying qualities of a person’s moral or

ethical knowledge, reasoning, values, and

commitments that are routinely displayed in

behavior. Character is associated with the quality

of one’s life, especially in terms of moral and ethical

decisions and actions.


Moral Anatomy
As described in framework for developing the whole

person, Huitt (2004) placed moral character is one of


three core elements that are dynamically related to both

the personal and social aspects of one’s life. That is,

development in each of the ten identified domains and

the other core elements of spiritual development and

personal style influence the development of one’s moral

character and this development, in turn, influences

development in the ten domains and the other core

elements.
Moral Anatomy
Berkowitz (2002) identified seven psychological components of the

“moral anatomy,” and urged scientists and educators to begin

reconstructing the “complete moral person.”


1. Moral behavior (prosocial, sharing, donating to charity, telling the

truth)
2. Moral values (believe in moral goods)
3. Moral emotion (guilt, empathy, compassion)
4. Moral reasoning (about right and wrong)
5. Moral identity (morality as an aspect self-image)
6. Moral personality (enduring tendency to act with honesty, altruism,

responsibility
7. “Metamoral” characteristics meaning they make morality possible even

though they are not inherently moral.


Moral Anatomy
Vessels’ (1998) divided cognition into moral knowing and moral

reasoning. He addressed will or volition by examining the intersections

between moral feeling and both thinking (empathy, motivation) and

knowing (values, beliefs), and by defining moral behavior as intentional

by definition. According to Vessels, the intersection of moral knowing,

reasoning, feeling, and behaving yields conscience, which reflects one’s

(a) past thoughts, feelings, and behavior, (b) one’s present thoughts and

feelings, and (c) one’s view of the future in terms of feeling compelled to

act morally. He agrees with the other researchers in that moral character

includes both personal and social aspects, which he describes as

personal and social integrity.


Moral Anatomy
There is a great deal of overlap among these psychological-component

models of moral character, particularly the conceptual models of

Berkowitz (1998), Damon (1988), Huitt (2000), Lickona (1991), Navarez and

Rest (1995), and Vessels (1998). Their conceptual models bare some

resemblance to those proposed by Plato, Confucius, and Freud (Vessels).

Differences are largely a matter of emphasis rather than substance. It

seems reasonable to conclude, therefore, that character is a multi-

faceted psychological and behavioral phenomenon that involves the

predictable co-occurrence and inter-connectedness of its many

psychological and behavioral components with the level of character

being determined by the consistency and strength with which these

components co-occur in response to challenging life events.


Character
Development
Jonas Matheu D. Marquez

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