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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

moral identity, religiosity, prosocial behaviors, empathy, aggression

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Psychology

Abstract

The proposed project sought to examine moral identity as a mediation of relations between religiosity and positive and negative behaviors among emerging adults. Upon receipt of the ORCA grant in February 2010, Dr. Hardy and I began the data analysis. The analysis was performed on a large (n=3,000) national data set of college age students. It was hypothesized that moral identity will be found to be a significant mechanism of religiosity and various outcome variables. Originally, structural equation modeling was going to be used to test a model whereby moral identity is a mediator of relations between religious commitment and prosocial and antisocial behavior. Unfortunately, the initial pre-requisite analyses were not significant, and thus the hypothesized model was not tested. After discovering the lack of support for our original hypotheses, Dr. Hardy and I decided that I would participate in part of the data analysis and preparing a manuscript for a different project.

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