Abstract:

The study analyses moral competence and its relationship to personality dimensions as defined by five (Big Five) and six (HEXACO) factor models as a fundamental principle of future leaders of the Slovak university sudents (N=171; AMage=20,66, SD=5,61; 36,8 of males) completed Moral Competence Test (Lind, 1976), the HEXACO-60 personality inventory (Ashton, & Lee, 2009), and NEO Five Factor Inventory (Costa, & McCrae, 1992). Significant positive weak correlations were found between openness to experience and moral competence in the research sample (rs=,187, p≤,01) and significant weak correlations between moral competence and six factor personality dimensions openness to experience (rs=,176, p≤,05) and honesty-humility (rs=-,171 p≤,05). This contradiction can be explained by the orthogonal relation between these constructs, i.e. moral reasoning and behavior are being taught during our lifetime by gradual values and principles internalization, though the personality traits are innate. The study is a part of research project “Psychological Approach to Creation, Implementation, and Verification of Educational Leader´s Competence Model Development (APVV-17-0557)” where moral competence as a trained skill is a keystone of future leaders.

Keywords:

Morality, moral competence, personality traits, Big Five, Hexaco, leader.