| 1 | Path 6-4|moral identity–moral judgment | Blasi (1980) | MI facilitates the translation of moral judgments and principles into action |
| 2 | Path 10-4|job satisfaction–moral judgment | Han Fan et al. (2013) | Attitudes positively influence the quality of moral judgments |
| 3 | Path 6-8|moral identity–empathy | Lee et al. (2014) | Employees with higher moral identity generally feel more empathy for others |
| 4 | Path 4-8|moral judgment–empathy | Gleichgerrcht and Young (2013) | MJ has an association with empathy |
| 5 | Path 8-4|empathy–moral judgment | Mencl and May, 2009 | Empathy has been found more closely related to moral judgment |
| 6 | Path4-1|moral judgment–seriousness of issue | Herzog and Einat (2016) | The relationship between moral judgment and perception of seriousness of issue has been found positive |
| 7 | Path 8-3|empathy–perceived responsibility | Osswald et al. (2011) | Empathy has positively connected with attribution of responsibility |
| 8 | Path 3-1|perceived responsibility– seriousness of issue | Crick and Dodge (1994) | PR is assumed to be one variable that affects judgments about the seriousness of the issue |
| 9 | Path 1-3|seriousness of issue–perceived responsibility | Velasquez (1992) | Seriousness of wrongdoing is weighted against moral standard, active involvement, heavy cost to reach a level of judgment of responsibility |
| 10 | Path 3-5|perceived responsibility– moral courage | Greitemeyer et al. (2006) | PR is important for the decision whether to show moral courage or not |
| 11 | Path 1-2|seriousness of issue– perceived personal cost | Velasquez (1992) | Seriousness of wrong is weighted against perceived personal cost to reach to a decision |
| 12 | Path 3-2|perceived responsibility– perceived personal cost | Velasquez (1992) | Seriousness of wrong is weighted against heavy cost to reach a level of judgment of responsibility |
| 13 | Path 2-5|perceived personal cost–moral courage | Niesta Kayser et al. (2010) | MC is associated with high personal cost |
| 14 | Path 5-2|moral courage–perceived personal cost | Ayers and Kaplan (2005) | Courageous people do not consider personal cost as intervening factor |
| 15 | Path 5-7|moral courage–self-efficacy | Hannah et al. (2011) | Moral courage and self-efficacy constructs are distinct yet linked with each other |
| 16 | Path 7-5|self-efficacy–moral courage | Osswald et al. (2011) | Self-efficacy acts as promoting factor of moral courage |
| 17 | Path 7-9|self-efficacy–anger | Bandura (1996) | Efficacy belief has an impact on emotions |
| 18 | Path 9-7|anger–self-efficacy | Wright and Mischel (1982) | Emotions influence efficacy |