ABSTRACT
The Self Model emphasizes responsibility and integrity as key notions underlying moral action. Morality is one result of our attempt to extract meaning from our social exchanges, and this meaning entails the view that moral action involves intention and knowledge. The term "moral personality" implies that personality is somehow relevant to moral functioning. Only a moral sense that is deeply rooted in one's personality can give rise to moral action or can otherwise sustain the effort to live in fidelity to one's moral commitments. The term "integration" is used by Blasi as a metaphor to convey the idea that personality is unified and coalesces around a center. This center is called self or ego. Much more is at stake for the self in the management-of-identity mode than, say, in a social-role-identity mode and hence the striking pattern of reaction to self-inconsistency and the concern with personal integrity.
