Moral Disengagement Scale (and the Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale).

MDS / PMD

What it measures

Bandura's eight mechanisms of moral disengagement - moral justification, euphemistic labelling, advantageous comparison, displacement and diffusion of responsibility, distortion of consequences, dehumanisation, attribution of blame

Length and format

32 (Bandura et al. 1996, children/adolescents); 24 and 8 (Moore et al. 2012 adult PMD forms). 3-pt to 7-pt Likert (agreement), version dependent (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

30+ langs approx incl. IT (original development language alongside English), ES, PT, DE, FR, NL, ZH, TR, EL, PL, RU

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

Bandura A, Barbaranelli C, Caprara GV, Pastorelli C. Mechanisms of moral disengagement in the exercise of moral agency. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1996;71(2):364-374.