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Well‐being and moral identity
Author(s) -
Garcia Danilo,
Moradi Saleh,
Amato Clara,
Granjard Alexandre,
Cloninger Kevin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
psych journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2046-0260
pISSN - 2046-0252
DOI - 10.1002/pchj.205
Subject(s) - cooperativeness , flourishing , identity (music) , meaning (existential) , social psychology , psychology , identification (biology) , well being , sociology , aesthetics , philosophy , personality , psychotherapist , botany , temperament , biology
The good life is the result of flourishing and resilience, but also of being a morally good person. We found that moral identity was associated with engagement, meaning, the identification and acceptance of others (i.e., cooperativeness), and the sense of being part of something bigger than the self (i.e., self‐transcendence).