Moral perfectionism and moral values,virtues, and judgments: A preliminary investigation |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom;2. Department of Psychology, City University London, London, United Kingdom;1. School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom;2. Department of Psychology, City University London, London, United Kingdom;1. School of Sport, York St John University, Lord Mayor''s Walk, York Y031 7EX, UK;2. Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, PO BOX 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada;3. Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, 5909 Veteran''s Memorial Lane, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2E2, Canada;4. Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Moral perfectionism has a long tradition in philosophical inquiry, but so far has been ignored in psychological research. This article presents a first psychological investigation of moral perfectionism exploring its relationships with moral values, virtues, and judgments. In three studies, 539 university students responded to items of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Frost et al., 1990) adapted to measure personal moral standards (PMS) and concern over moral mistakes (CMM) and completed measures of moral values, virtues, and forgiveness, gratitude, and wrong behavior judgments. When partial correlations were computed controlling for the overlap between PMS and CMM, PMS showed positive correlations with moral values, virtues, reciprocal helping, forgiveness, and condemnation of wrong behaviors. In contrast, CMM showed a positive correlation only with indebtedness and a negative correlation with self-reliance. The present findings, while preliminary, suggest that moral perfectionism is a personality characteristic that may help explain individual differences in moral values, virtues, and judgments. |
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| Keywords: | Moral perfectionism Personal standards Concern over mistakes Moral values Virtues Moral judgments Forgiveness Gratitude |
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