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A Moral Theory of Public Service Motivation
Morality constructs the relationship between the self and others, providing a sense of appropriateness that facilitates and coordinates social behaviors. We start from Moral Foundation Theory (MFT), and argue that multiple moral domains can shape the meaning of public service and engender Public Ser...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7530182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33041907 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.517763 |
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author | Wang, Tse-Min van Witteloostuijn, Arjen Heine, Florian |
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description | Morality constructs the relationship between the self and others, providing a sense of appropriateness that facilitates and coordinates social behaviors. We start from Moral Foundation Theory (MFT), and argue that multiple moral domains can shape the meaning of public service and engender Public Service Motivation (PSM). From the lens of cognitive science, we develop a causal map for PSM by understanding the social cognition process underlying PSM, focusing on five innate moralities as the potential antecedents of PSM: Care, Fairness, Authority, Loyalty, and Sanctity. Extending moral domains beyond compassion and justice can provide a disaggregated view of PSM, which may help to identify institutional and cultural variation in the meaning of PSM. We discuss the theoretical implications of synthesizing MFT and PSM literatures, and provide directions for future research that could improve our understanding of PSM. |
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spelling | pubmed-75301822020-10-09 A Moral Theory of Public Service Motivation Wang, Tse-Min van Witteloostuijn, Arjen Heine, Florian Front Psychol Psychology Morality constructs the relationship between the self and others, providing a sense of appropriateness that facilitates and coordinates social behaviors. We start from Moral Foundation Theory (MFT), and argue that multiple moral domains can shape the meaning of public service and engender Public Service Motivation (PSM). From the lens of cognitive science, we develop a causal map for PSM by understanding the social cognition process underlying PSM, focusing on five innate moralities as the potential antecedents of PSM: Care, Fairness, Authority, Loyalty, and Sanctity. Extending moral domains beyond compassion and justice can provide a disaggregated view of PSM, which may help to identify institutional and cultural variation in the meaning of PSM. We discuss the theoretical implications of synthesizing MFT and PSM literatures, and provide directions for future research that could improve our understanding of PSM. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7530182/ /pubmed/33041907 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.517763 Text en Copyright © 2020 Wang, van Witteloostuijn and Heine. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Wang, Tse-Min van Witteloostuijn, Arjen Heine, Florian A Moral Theory of Public Service Motivation |
title | A Moral Theory of Public Service Motivation |
title_full | A Moral Theory of Public Service Motivation |
title_fullStr | A Moral Theory of Public Service Motivation |
title_full_unstemmed | A Moral Theory of Public Service Motivation |
title_short | A Moral Theory of Public Service Motivation |
title_sort | moral theory of public service motivation |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7530182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33041907 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.517763 |
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