2002/03/01 by Douglas R. May, Kevin P. Pauli · 242 citations
Decision Sciences · Health Professions · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Distributive justice #Distributive property #Economic Justice #Epistemology #Ethical decision #Ethics in Business and Education #Ethics in medical practice #Law #Moral authority #Moral development #Moral disengagement #Moral psychology #Moral reasoning #Philosophy #Political science #Psychology #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Relation (database) #Social cognitive theory of morality #Social psychology #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1177/0007650302041001006
published in Business & Society 41(1), 84-117 (SAGE Publishing)
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An empirical investigation found that the dimensions of moral intensity were related to the recognition of moral issues, moral evaluations (i.e., utilitarian, deontological, procedural, and distributive justice), and moral intentions. Consistent with the ethical decision-making framework presented, findings also revealed that (a) the moral intensity–moral evaluation relation was partially mediated by moral recognition for distributive justice and utilitarian evaluations, (b) the moral recognition–moral intention relationwas fully mediated by distributive justice and utilitarian evaluations, and (c) the moral intensity–moral intention relation was partially mediated by the combination of moral recognition and each ofthe moral evaluation processes.