Jia Fanli, Krettenauer Tobias
Department of Psychology, Seton Hall University, South Orange NJ, USA.
Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo ON, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2017 Mar 21;8:412. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00412. eCollection 2017.
Current research on moral identity shows that moral identity predicts moral action in Western cultures but not in non-Western cultures. The present paper argues that this may be due to the fact that the concept of moral identity is culturally biased. In order to remedy this situation, we argue that researchers should broaden their scopes of inquiry by adding a cultural lens to their studies of moral identity. This change is important because although some concept of moral identity likely exists in all cultures, it may function in different ways and at different levels in each place. We propose that moral identity is a context-dependent construct tied to varying social and cultural obligations. We argue that Western moral identity stresses an individually oriented morality, whereas, people from Eastern cultures consider a highly moral person to be societally oriented. We conclude by discussing the implications of this view for future research.
当前关于道德认同的研究表明，道德认同在西方文化中能够预测道德行为，但在非西方文化中却并非如此。本文认为，这可能是由于道德认同的概念存在文化偏见。为了纠正这种情况，我们主张研究人员应通过在道德认同研究中加入文化视角来拓宽研究范围。这一改变很重要，因为尽管道德认同的某些概念可能在所有文化中都存在，但它在每个地方可能以不同的方式和在不同的层面发挥作用。我们提出，道德认同是一种依赖于情境的建构，与不同的社会和文化义务相关联。我们认为，西方的道德认同强调个体导向的道德，而来自东方文化的人们则认为高度道德的人是社会导向的。最后，我们讨论了这一观点对未来研究的启示。
