What the psychological structure of morality consists of

The psychological structure of morality is extremely complex. Generally speaking, morality is mainly composed of four psychological components: moral awareness, moral emotion, moral will and moral behavior. Moral cognition and moral emotion can arouse people's moral motivation, thus pushing people to produce moral will and corresponding moral behavior.

(I) Moral awareness

Moral awareness can also be called moral concepts, that is, a moral behavior of right and wrong, good and evil, beauty and ugliness and the implementation of the meaning of the awareness, including the formation of moral concepts and moral beliefs and the use of these concepts to analyze the moral behavior of the person or the thing to make a moral evaluation of their own level of understanding.

(II) Moral Emotions

Moral emotion is an inner experience that accompanies moral cognition. It is not only a reflection of objective things, but also an attitude of people towards objective things. Generally speaking, in the real life of various events or the behavior of others, individuals, where in line with their own understanding or their own maintenance of moral concepts, will produce a positive emotional experience, otherwise it will produce a negative emotional experience. It can be seen that moral emotion is the inner experience caused by whether people's moral needs are satisfied.

(3) Moral will

Moral will is the psychological process by which people consciously determine the purpose of moral behavior, actively regulate their activities, and overcome all kinds of difficulties in order to realize the set purpose. Moral will is also subject to the domination of moral awareness, is the people use their own consciousness control and the weighing role of reason to solve the moral life of the inner conflict (such as the conflict between the motives and the action process of the struggle between perseverance and wavering, etc.) and the dominant behavior of the force. Moral will is usually expressed in a person's confidence, determination and perseverance.

(4) Moral behavior

Moral behavior refers to the speech and action taken by a person in accordance with the moral norms, which is the means to realize the moral motives, and it is the concrete expression and external sign of moral knowledge and moral emotion. The cultivation of moral behavior is mainly realized through the training of moral behavior and the cultivation of moral behavior habits. Only students with good moral behavior can make the school character education has social value.

In the process of character formation, the above four psychological components are interconnected, mutual restriction and mutual promotion. In the practice of school education, moral awareness is the beginning of the formation of students' character, is the basis of moral emotion, moral will and moral behavior; moral emotion and moral will is the intermediate link in the formation of character, not only influences the tendency of moral awareness, but also can play a kind of motivation and orientation of moral behavior; moral behavior is under the guidance of moral awareness, under the impetus of moral emotion and moral will. Moral behavior is guided by moral understanding, driven by moral emotion and moral will, and formed through training, and at the same time it plays a role in promoting the consolidation and development of moral understanding and the enrichment of moral emotion. It can be seen that students' moral character is a multi-layered and complete unity composed of several elements, including moral awareness, moral emotion, moral will and moral behavior, intertwined according to different combinations under the interaction of various factors, such as the positive influence of the objective reality and the subjective efforts of the students themselves. They have an inseparable relationship with each other. In the practical activities of these four psychological components once the coordination of balance, if one aspect of deviation, will affect each other and weaken each other, only these psychological components of the coordinated and balanced development, will be conducive to people will be the social norms of morality into a personal character. It can be seen that the formation of moral character is an extremely complex dynamic change system. Therefore, the work of cultivating students' moral character is a very difficult and complicated work that requires comprehensive education and management of the family, society and school.