While research bore out a reliable relationship between moral identity and moral behavior, it has not addressed potential undermining effects of moral identity on moral behavior. This paper offers an integrative framework for conceptualizing such effects. Within this framework, moral identity is defined as a goal that allows for different forms of goal pursuit. The moral identity goal can vary along three axes: prevention versus promotion orientation, external versus internal motivation, and low versus high level of abstraction. It is argued that (a) prevention orientation fosters moral disengagement, (b) external motivation promotes moral hypocrisy, and (c) a less abstract representation of the moral identity goal allows for moral licensing. These undermining effects can be overcome by promotion-oriented, internally motivated and more abstract moral identity goals.

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当道德认同破坏道德行为时：一个综合框架

虽然研究证实了道德认同和道德行为之间的可靠关系，但它并没有解决道德认同对道德行为的潜在破坏性影响。本文提供了一个综合框架来概念化这些影响。在这个框架内，道德认同被定义为允许不同形式的目标追求的目标。道德认同目标可以沿着三个轴变化：预防与促进导向，外部与内部动机，以及低抽象水平与高抽象水平。有人认为（a）预防导向促进道德脱离接触，（b）外部动机促进道德虚伪，以及（c）道德认同目标的不太抽象的表示允许道德许可。这些破坏性影响可以通过促销导向来克服，