TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Childhood maltreatment and moral sensitivity: an interpretation based on schema theory
JO  - Personality and individual differences
A1  - Xiang, Yanhui
A1  - Cao, Yintao
A1  - Dong, Xia
SP  - e109924
EP  - e109924
VL  - 160
IS  - 
N2  - It has been found that childhood maltreatment can lead to immoral behaviors, and the occurrence of immoral behaviors is mainly caused by low moral sensitivity. Therefore, the current study explored the relationship between childhood maltreatment and moral sensitivity and the mediation mechanism of perceived social support based on schema theory. We administered the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) and an experiment to measure the moral sensitivity to a nonclinical sample of Chinese university students (N = 383). The results indicated that childhood maltreatment negatively predicted moral sensitivity, and perceived social support played a partial mediating role. Multiple mediation analysis showed that only the significant others' support component of MSPSS acted as a mediator betweenchildhood maltreatment and moral sensitivity. The results of the current study are helpful to understand individual moral behaviors and provide theoretical basis for the intervention and mitigation of the negative effects of childhood maltreatment.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0191-8869
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109924
ID  - ref1
ER  -