scholarly journals Understanding the Spread of Sustained Employee Volunteering: How Volunteers Influence Their Coworkers’ Moral Identity Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 014920632110508
Author(s):  
Michael J. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Moral Exemplars ◽  
Employee Volunteering

Employee volunteering has become a common phenomenon in many organizations. However, it is unclear how sustained volunteering spreads between colleagues. Drawing on an empirical study set in the English legal profession, this study examines the processes through which existing employee volunteers influence their coworkers to internalize a volunteer identity. The study yields a theoretical model that specifies how coworkers may identify existing volunteers as moral exemplars. Five forms of social influence emanate, often unknowingly, from these exemplars: encouraging, evoking, edifying, enacting, and exemplifying. These forms of social influence inform coworkers’ microprocess of moral identity work through which they claim a volunteer identity. This study thereby shifts attention from the well-theorized outcomes of moral identities to the largely unexamined social influences on moral identities in the workplace, enriching our understanding of the development of the moral self that is foundational to theories of volunteering and identity.

scholarly journals Questionnaire Data from the Revision of a Chinese Version of Free Will and Determinism Plus Scale

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing-Lan Liu ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
Wenjing Yan ◽  
Kaiping Peng ◽  
Jie Sui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Chinese Version ◽  
Control Belief ◽  
Just World ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Personal Belief ◽  
Self Image

We reported a questionnaire dataset accumulated from the revision of a Chinese version of Free Will and Determinism Scale Plus (FAD+). In this dataset, we collected data from 1232 participants. The questionnaires used in data collection included the FAD+ and 13 other widely-used questionnaires or tests (for example, the Big Five In-ventory, the Multidimensional Locus of Control, Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, the General and Personal Belief in a Just World Scale, the Chinese Disgust Sensitivity Scale, the Moral Identity Questionnaire, the Moral Self-Image Scale). The sample size for these questionnaires are different, ranging from 33 to 1100. Our preliminary analysis revealed that scores of these scales are reliable (Cronbach's alpha: .52 ~ .85, McDonald’s omega: .63 ~ .90). These data can be used for both research and educa-tional purposes, e.g., examining cultural differences and measurement invariance on belief in free will, locus of control, belief in just world. All data, together with their codebooks and manipulation code, are available at osf.io/t2nsw/

scholarly journals Social origin and the ability to self-evaluate school performance accurately

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Rosche
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Academic Ability ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Social Origin ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
School Grades ◽  
Important Research Question

As for students many consequential life decisions still lie ahead it is vitally important that their choices suit their abilities. Concerning education a misperception of academic ability can lead to educational misinvestment with potentially severe consequences. That is why this paper investigates if there are disparities in the ability to accurately self-evaluate school performance by social origin. To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first paper considering this important research question. In doing so, the paper has two emphases: firstly, a theoretical model, arguing why disparities in the ability to accurately self-evaluate school performance by social origin are likely, is proposed and secondly an empirical study is conducted in order to examine if disparities by social origin are findable. The key results indicate that both students with less and students with highly educated parents underestimate their school performance if they have school grades higher than the average, and overestimate their school performance if they have school grades lower than the average. However, this relationship is intensified for students with less educated parents and therefore they self-evaluate their school performancecompared to students with highly educated parents less accurately.

scholarly journals PERSONALITY MODEL OF INTELLECTUALY GIFTED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Vinnyk
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
High School Student ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Sensitive Period ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Adult Personality ◽  
Intellectually Gifted ◽  
Psychological Features

The theoretical model of intellectually gifted high school student’s personality is offered in the article. The components of this model has been substantiated. Theoretical model includes a personal maturity and intellectual achievements. Personal maturity is based on a structure of personality and has such components as: communicative, motivational, characterological, reflexive, experiential, emotional intellect, psychophysical, which are from their side are based on main individually-psychological qualities of the personality of intellectually gifted high school student. Psychological features of older teens are determined. On authors opinion, the sensitive period for personal development is an older teen age (15-17 years), when happens that the teen personality transforms into adult personality. Adult personality is based on communicative motivation, success reaching motivation, reflection, skills of emotions understanding and controlling, intellect, experience for moral self-control and social cooperation’s.

An Investigation of the Adoption of Online Game Technologies in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
pp. 307-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardinus Harnadi
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
New Findings

This study examines influences on an individual's intentions to use online game technologies. Data was collected by the questionnaire from a sample of 895 individuals of age 12 – 26 years in Indonesia. A theoretical model extending the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology included causal effects on intentions as well as moderating effects due to the individual's gender, age, and experience. The model was analyzed using structural equation modeling techniques and the results confirmed several findings from previous studies respected especially with the positive effects of enjoyment, ease of use, and the availability of infrastructure on the individual's intentions. New findings showed that gender, age, and experience moderated the effects on the individual's intention due to social influences, feelings of involvement, and perceptions of personal attainments, respectively. Moreover, new findings emerged for differences and similarities in the significant effects in the theoretical model among the groups defined within the scales of gender, age, and experience.

Moral Development, Moral Identity, and Prosocial Behavior

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-179
Author(s):  
John C. Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Moral Motivation ◽  
Ego Strength ◽  
Moral Exemplars ◽  
Internal Locus Of Control ◽  
Field Independent ◽  
Sustained Action ◽  
Distinguishing Features

This chapter focuses on some of the variables accounting for individual differences in the likelihood of prosocial behavior. “Prosocial behavior” can range from a particular intervention to a lifetime dedicated to just and good causes. Highly prosocial individuals (moral exemplars) tend to be morally mature and highly empathic but field-independent (Moral Type B, internal locus of control, high self-efficacy) persons who perceive morality as central to their sense of self (high moral identity). Moral identity can join the main primary (affective and cognitive) sources of moral motivation. Finally, to take effective sustained action, even highly prosocial individuals need grit or ego strength, defined in terms of affect-regulating follow-through skills. Distinguishing features of genuine (versus spurious) moral exemplars are considered at the end of the chapter.

THE EMERGENCE OF HOLOCAUST MEMORIES IN THE MORAL DILEMMAS OF OBJECTING ISRAELI SOLDIERS DURING THE INTIFADA

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Linn
Keyword(s):  
Moral Identity ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Psychological Tools ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Israeli Soldiers

In the search for their moral identity, Israeli soldiers seem to have turned to their collective memories for guidance (Shapira, 1971, Young, 1989). This paper focused on this search among objecting reserve soldiers during the Intifada. It showed that Holocaust symbols and metaphors were being used as a frame of reference against which one's moral confusion was judged (Linn, 1991). As noted by Young (1989) “What is remembered of the Holocaust depends on how it is remembered, and how events are remembered depends in turn on the text now giving them form” (p. 1) The Intifada seems to create this text. The memories of the Holocaust, seem to provide the Israeli reserve soldier who is also the reader and the actor of and in this text, new psychological tools to assert his moral self.

scholarly journals Leaders who empower: a gateway to radical innovation

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Emilio Domínguez-Escrig ◽  
Francisco Fermín Mallén Broch ◽  
Rafael Lapiedra Alcamí ◽  
Ricardo Chiva Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Radical Innovation ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The main goal of the current study is to analyze the relationship between leaders' empowerment, radical innovation and organizational performance. A total of 300 Spanish companies participated in the study. In total, 600 valid questionnaires were obtained. Structural equations were used to validate the proposed hypotheses. Two different respondents in each company were selected to provide information. All the hypotheses proposed in the theoretical model were confirmed. This research provides empirical evidence of the relationship between leaders' empowerment and organizational performance, highlighting the mediation role played by radical innovation. Leaders who empower, promote radical innovation and, in turn, performance. To our knowledge, this is the first empirical study that analyzes the effect of leader's empowerment on radical innovation. Although in the former literature there are evidences of a positive relationship between empowerment and innovation, there are no studies that differentiate between innovation typologies.

Semiotic alignment: Towards a dialogical model of interspecific communication

Semiotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (230) ◽  
pp. 247-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignasi Ribó
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Interspecific Communication ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Influence Model ◽  
Communicative Interactions ◽  
Alignment Model ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Adaptive Interaction

AbstractCommunicative interactions across different species have so far received relatively little attention from cognitive or behavioral scientists. Most research in this area views the process of communication as the adaptive interaction of manipulative signalers and information-assessing receivers. This paper discusses some shortcomings of the information/influence model of communication, particularly in the empirical study of interspecific communicative interactions. It then presents an alternative theoretical model, based on recent contributions in psycholinguistics and semiotics. The semiotic alignment model views communication as a dynamic process of joint semiosis resulting in the alignment of the interactants’ own-worlds (Umwelten). It is argued that this model can improve our understanding of communicative interactions between heterospecifics and provide the basis for future work in the empirical study of interspecific communication.

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