Current Psychology ( IF 2.5 ) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 , DOI: 10.1007/s12144-023-04800-0 Mariola Paruzel-Czachura 1, 2 , Artur Domurat 1 , Marta Nowak 3
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Opinions on abortion are more polarized than opinions on most other moral issues. Why are some people pro-choice and some pro-life? Religious and political preferences play a role here, but pro-choice and pro-life people may also differ in other aspects. In the current preregistered study (N = 479), we investigated how pro-choice women differ in their moral foundations from pro-life women. When the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) was applied (i.e., when declared moral principles were measured), pro-life women scored higher than pro-choice women in loyalty, authority, and purity. However, when women were asked about moral judgments indirectly via more real-life problems from the Moral Foundations Vignettes (MFV), pro-choice women scored higher than pro-life women in emotional and physical care and liberty but lower in loyalty. When we additionally controlled for religious practice and political views, we found no differences between groups in declaring moral foundations (MFQ). However, in the case of real-life moral judgments (MFV), we observed higher care, fairness, and liberty among pro-choice and higher authority and purity among pro-life. Our results show intriguing nuances between women pro-choice and pro-life as we found a different pattern of moral foundations in those groups depending on whether we measured their declared abstract moral principles or moral judgment about real-life situations. We also showed how religious practice and political views might play a role in such differences. We conclude that attitudes to abortion “go beyond” abstract moral principles, and the real-life context matters in moral judgments.
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中文翻译：
支持堕胎和反对堕胎妇女的道德基础
对堕胎的看法比对大多数其他道德问题的看法更加两极分化。为什么有些人支持堕胎，有些人反对堕胎？宗教和政治偏好在这里发挥着作用，但支持堕胎和反对堕胎的人也可能在其他方面存在差异。在当前的预注册研究（N = 479）中，我们调查了支持堕胎的女性与反对堕胎的女性在道德基础上有何不同。当应用道德基础调查问卷（MFQ）时（即测量公开的道德原则时），反对堕胎的女性在忠诚、权威和纯洁方面的得分高于支持堕胎的女性。然而，当女性通过道德基础小插曲（MFV）中的更多现实生活问题间接被问及道德判断时，支持堕胎的女性在情感和身体护理以及自由方面的得分高于反对堕胎的女性，但在忠诚度方面得分较低。当我们另外控制宗教习俗和政治观点时，我们发现不同群体在宣称道德基础（MFQ）方面没有差异。然而，就现实生活中的道德判断（MFV）而言，我们观察到支持堕胎的人有更高的关怀、公平和自由，而反对堕胎的人有更高的权威和纯洁性。我们的结果显示了支持堕胎和反对堕胎的女性之间存在着有趣的细微差别，因为我们发现这些群体的道德基础模式不同，这取决于我们是否衡量了她们宣称的抽象道德原则或对现实生活情况的道德判断。我们还展示了宗教习俗和政治观点如何在这些差异中发挥作用。我们的结论是，对堕胎的态度“超越”了抽象的道德原则，现实生活背景在道德判断中很重要。
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