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Integrity Tests and Morality: Associations with Ego Development, Moral Reasoning, and Psychopathic Personality
Author(s) -
Connelly Brian S.,
Lilienfeld Scott O.,
Schmeelk Kelly M.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2389.2006.00335.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , morality , moral reasoning , id, ego and super ego , moral development , social psychology , loevinger's stages of ego development , developmental psychology , epistemology , philosophy
Although past research has shown links between integrity tests and the Big Five personality traits, little is known about the relationship between integrity and other individual difference constructs used to predict moral behavior. The present study expands this research by examining the relationships between ego development, moral reasoning, psychopathic personality, and three commonly used integrity tests. Both overt and personality‐based integrity tests showed the strongest (negative) correlations with psychopathic personality but only modest correlations with ego development and moral reasoning. On the whole, these findings suggest that integrity tests may be more closely related to overt moral behavior than to moral reasoning.