This study investigates relationships between Robert Hogan's theory of dimensions of moral character, creativity, and ideology. Hogan's model contains five dimensions: Moral knowledge, socialization, empathy, autonomy, and ethical attitudes. Moral knowledge is assumed in adult populations of at least average intelligence and was not included in this study. / Five populations were chosen. Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City, Florida, and Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, Georgia, were selected as general populations of college students in the southeast. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, provided two samples. The School of Theatre was selected based on self-selection into an environment where creativity is prized. The Reserve Officer's Training Corps was selected as a population self-selected into a highly structured environment marked by an explicit ideology. Liberty Baptist College, Lynchburg, Virginia, provided a sample of people self-selecting into a highly structured, explicitly religious, environment. / The Hogan model showed considerable discriminating power by revealing distinctive profiles for these populations, and thus receives additional confirmation. / Spontaneous flexibility and originality were positively related to empathy, autonomy, and ethics of personal conscience. High socialization scores did not appear to inhibit creative production, but there was a negative correlation with ethics of social responsibility. / There was a positive correlation between the value of religious efforts and socialization. Belief in order and pattern related positively with empathy, autonomy, and ethics of personal conscience. There was a small but significant positive intercorrelation between originality and belief in order and pattern that is consistent with positive correlations by both of these variables with empathy, autonomy, and ethics of personal conscience. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, Section: A, page: 2603. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74486 |
| Contributors | WRAGG, PAUL HARRIS., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 257 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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