Moral identity: What is it, how does it develop, and is it linked to moral action?

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 212-218

  Hardy, Sam A ^a   Carlo, Gustavo ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Moral action; Moral development; Moral identity; Moral self; Morality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961217233     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2011.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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