Abstract
The study is aimed at investigating the connection between the friendliness of the home environment and the moral motives' level. The friendliness of the home environment includes two aspects: the number of functions provided by home (functionality) and the congruence of these functions with inhabitants' needs (relevance). The theoretical framework of the study was formed by research and ideas emphasizing the interplay between people and their environments. We hypothesized that the friendliness of the home environment and inhabitants' moral motives would have a reciprocal relationship: the friendlier the home the higher the inhabitants' moral motives' level, and, vice versa, the higher the person's moral motives' level the more positive home image. The respondents were 550 students (25% male). The Home Environment Functionality Questionnaire, the Home Environment Relevance Questionnaire, and the Moral Motivation Model Scale were used. As expected, it was found that the friendliness of the home environment and the inhabitants' moral motives are in reciprocal synergetic relationships. Relevance formed more nuanced correlation patterns with moral motives than functionality did. Functionality predicted moral motives poorly whereas moral motives predicted functionality strongly. Finally, relevance and moral motives were found to be in mutual relationships whereas the perceived functionality was predicted by moral motives only.
Highlights
Seeking ecological ways to study personality and resources to stimulate people’s well-being and personal growth is one of the most important trends in contemporary psychology (Schraube and Højholt, 2015)
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the home environment as a regulating agent: it defines the circumstances of personal everyday life, and is a “full member” of the family because of common experiences, history, and affordances to various activities provided by the home
Many positive connections between moral motives and features of the friendly home were found, with the exception of home detachment which was connected with self-reliance negatively
Summary
Seeking ecological ways to study personality and resources to stimulate people’s well-being and personal growth is one of the most important trends in contemporary psychology (Schraube and Højholt, 2015). Lang (1981, 1993) stated that psychology should not investigate artificial labor variables but rather people with their possessions in their rooms. In Jungian psychoanalysis, the home is a symbol of personality, reflecting its states and changes (Jung, 1964). It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the home environment as a regulating agent: it defines the circumstances of personal everyday life, and is a “full member” of the family because of common experiences, history, and affordances to various activities provided by the home
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