Publication at Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, First Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Education |
2018
Abstract
Moral disengagement as a cognitive mechanism deactivates moral selfregulatory processes that naturally inhibit unethical behavior and elucidates reasons, why people tend to engage in unethical behavior without apparent guilt or self-censure (Bandura et al., 1996). Previous studies (Bandura et al., 1996; Hyde, Shaw, Miolanen, 2010; Moore et al., 2012; Shulman et al., 2011; Wang et al., 2017) have shown that individual predispositions to morally disengage are associated with a host of negative behaviors such as aggression, bullying, cheating, stealing, lying, workplace misconduct, criminal behavior or unethical behavior generally.