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Omission and Compromise: The Sacredness of Moral Foundations in Political Groups in Italy.
- Source :
- Europe's Journal of Psychology; Feb2020, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p128-147, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Sacred values are moral foundations that may make public and political debates among groups hard to resolve. A taboo trade-off framework offers the opportunity of measuring the inviolability and the "sacralization" of moral foundations. In this study, moral foundations in a taboo trade-off framework were assessed in a convenience sample of Italians (N = 224) using a new measure to assess sacred values, the Omission as a Compromise on Moral Foundations scale (OC-MF). The OC-MF measures the willingness of individuals to omit moral foundations in exchange for money. It was predicted that Italian center and left-wing participants would be less willing to compromise individualizing moral foundations as opposed to binding ones, and that center and right-wing participants would be less willing to compromise on binding moral foundations than left-wing participants. Confirmatory Factor Analyses demonstrated the two-factor structure of the OC-MF: individualizing and binding. As predicted, Repeated Measures Anova showed that political orientation was related with differential adoptions of moral foundations as sacred values, with center and left-wing participants refusing to compromise more on individualizing than on binding moral foundations. Moreover, left-wing participants were more willing to compromise on binding moral foundations than center and right-wing participants. The OC-MF shows the hypothesized differences between Italian political groups and offers a new understanding of moral reasoning. These findings provide opportunities for improving ideological debates concerning sacred values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONFIRMATORY factor analysis
MORAL reasoning
POLITICAL debates
SACREDNESS
DEBATE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18410413
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Europe's Journal of Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 142116241
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v16i1.1887