Has anyone used the Moral Foundation Scale (MFQ/20 - SHORT VERSION)?
It suits my project but i cannot find any articles about it or any authors that used it.
Koleva, S. P., Graham, J., Iyer, R., Ditto, P. H., & Haidt, J. (2012). Tracing the
threads: How five moral concerns (especially purity) help explain culture war
attitudes. Journal of Research in Personality 46(2), 184-194. doi:
10.1016/j.jrp.2012.01.006
There are other citations in the bibliography of the 2013 master's thesis by Martinelli
https://repository.asu.edu/attachments/103592/content/tmp/package-o7m6Ke/Martinelli_asu_0010N_12567.pdf
Since it appears that the Moral Foundation Scale is an instrument that can be used to define political ideology, I would suggest that you also investigate the work of Dan Kahan (Yale Law School) on cultural cognition. His test is able to discern ideological differences with only 8 questions, as I recall.
I also suspect that you will find other relevant articles by searching on Jonathan Haidt.
By the way, I had never heard of the Moral Foundation Scale, so I appreciate your bringing it to my attention.
Dear Clifford. Thank you for your contribution. I am more interested in the "helping others" or "care/harm" as they call it. I am working on bullying and i am trying to see how morality or moral values affect bullying bevaviour. Perhaps this might not be the best scale out there for my purpose and that was the reason i posted the question. If you have a scale in mind that is more focused on the care/harm part of morality or value if you wish i would truly appreciate it. Others have suggested the SRM-SF if you know it, but its quite lengthy.
Dear Calli,
I'm afraid I have no knowledge in this area. I am skeptical that moral values play much of a role, except in terms of the embodied moral values that are enacted by parents, friends, and other trusted people. I also suspect that bullying is a cultural phenomenon that cannot be adequately addressed at the level of individual behavior. But I realize that is not helpful for your project, so I will end by wishing you success in your venture.
Hi Calli,
I wonder if you might have better luck with something like the Moral Identity Scale (Aquino & Reed, 2002). This scale is designed to measure the extent to which people consider morality as central to their identity, whereas the MFQ subscales are more about which domains of morality a person takes to be genuinely moral.
As an added bonus, moral identity has been reported as negatively associated with psychopathic personality traits (Glenn et al., 2010), which are in turn related to increased bullying (e.g., Baughman et al., 2012), so there's a natural chain to argue from moral identity to bullying.
Aquino & Reed (2002) https://business.illinois.edu/business-administration/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2014/09/reed_paper.pdf
Baughman et al. (2012) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Holly_Baughman/publication/236877232_Relationships_between_bullying_behaviours_and_the_Dark_Triad_A_study_with_adults/links/02e7e52c515ae5c143000000.pdf
Glenn et al. (2010) http://journal.sjdm.org/10/10316/jdm10316.pdf
Article Relationships between bullying behaviours and the Dark Triad...
Dear Calli,
we've actually piloted a study about bullying (measured by a variant of the classical Salmivalli procedure) with a translated version of the MFQ30. The test is not easy to translate and to adapt to a different cultural context, however. As pilot results were not clearly promising, we we haven't followed up on this project with a refined translation so far. (I'm still interested in this project; please contact me, if you're interested in more details.) Generally, I would agree with Caleb: there may be more suitable measures, especially if you're interest is focussed on single aspects of morality, not on the full profile, which the MFQ measures.
There is a considerable amount of research on bullying and morality. Several studies focus on moral disengagement. You might also be interested in our research on bullying and moral reasoning (see attachment).
Article School Bullying and Moral Reasoning Competence
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