The Effects of Moral Self-perception on Prosocial Willingness and Deceptive Behavior in Rural Middle School Students
This study examined the effects of rural middle school students'moral self-perception on their prosocial willingness and de-ceptive behavior.In experiment 1,we enrolled 375 participants to examine the effect of rural middle school students'moral self-per-ception on their prosocial willingness.The results showed that the prosocial willingness of the participants in the high and the low moral self-perception group were significantly higher than those in the control group.In experiment 2,we enrolled 333 participants to exam-ine the effect of rural middle school students'moral self-perception on their deceptive behavior.The results showed that participants'deceptive behaviors in the high moral self-perception group were significantly higher than those in the low moral self-perception group and the control group,in addition,in the low moral self-perception group,participants'deceptive behaviors were significantly lower than those in the control group.Above all,the present study showed that rural middle school students with high moral self-per-ception exhibited moral consistency effect in the category of prosocial behavior,and exhibited moral psychological licensing effect in the category of deceptive bebavior,while rural middle school students with low moral self-perception showed moral cleansing effect in both the category of prosocial behavior and deceptive behavior.