The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Moral Development During Adolescence

Abstract

The relationship between adolescence, personality, and moral development is inseparable since it is a critical transitional period; therefore, the traits and temperament adolescents show can highly predict what their personalities are like in adulthood and therefore can influence how they behave in moral judgment. Research on moral psychology suggests that personality holds a strong relationship with morality, positive traits highlighted by sympathy and consciousness are likely to promote prosocial behaviors. In contrast, negative ones such as the Dark Triad traits always give rise to antisocial behaviors. Callous-unemotional traits are another potent reflection of personality. These traits exhibit a negative correlation with social rightness since the individual diagnosed with these traits feels less guilty of committing a crime. On the other hand, they are enabled to trigger atypical moral development like moral disengagement. Environmental factors, for example, childhood psychological maltreatment, can also contribute to moral progression by interacting with the factors we are talking about. The review traces how personality and morality develop and interrelate in a particular time –adolescence.