Deep down, all people (except sociopaths I suppose) are driven by their most closely held beliefs. Whatever your character holds to be true most of all will steer him, and this will be a moral belief, which manifests as moral attributes.

To say for sure I would have to read your story, but from what you have shared I would say yes. The question I would ask yourself is what other moral beliefs drive your character? If you see a bigger moral that steers them to be responsible, that would be the primary moral trait. Characters can have more than one moral belief. 😉

Would then an anti-hero still have a moral attribute as the predictor for the rest of his attributes or could he be like a villain where other traits than his moral attribute be the predictor?

Ah I see
Well then considered your replies, would you say then my character’s moral attribute would be Responsibility and selfishness being his flaw with Independence being an achievement based trait?

You have a few things going on here then. Selfishness is a negative trait. He’s choosing to be selfish to avoid being hurt (if he gives himself to others, they may reject him, take advantage, etc. whatever the case may be).Self-sufficiency, however, is a positive attribute and fits with his view of the world.

But believing everyone is out for themselves is probably a false belief resulting from some sort of bad experience in that past. So the character is operating out of a jaded outlook that all people are out for themselves and don’t care about others, which of course is a broad stroke and so not true. Eventually your character will have to come upon a situation where either someone goes out of their way to help him, and so he will realize his belief about all people being self-serving is false, or he will have to come upon someone who needs help and is worthy of it, and so he chooses to do right by them and put them first, rather than his own needs.

So let’s say my character’s moral belief is that doing everything you can to survive for yourself is right because everyone is out for themselves.
Now what would be his/her moral attribute on this?
Could selfish then be considered as one in this case?

Again, it depends on the character and how deeply entrenched the moral trait is that you are working with. Villains can be very moral, but it is just the way they go about getting their goal that is different and their actions often break other moral beliefs/codes on the way because their goal is more important. An anti-hero sacrifices morals too, but deep down has some sort of “moral line” they won’t cross. If this line is triggered in the story, we may see a shift. Not all villains have a line.

It really depends on the individual, and the type of wound, and the takeaway, but I would say Independent is a trait that solves a moral belief of being responsible. With a character similar to someone like Mayo, the character believes in being responsible in all things (because he has too, he can only trust himself) but also because it is morally right to do so (something he came to believe after seeing his father fail in this regard.) Independence allows him to take responsibility however he sees fit (for his own life, and to be responsible for others if he chooses) because he makes the choices, he is master of his fate, he doesn’t rely on others because he lived an upbringing where someone rejected responsibility.

Does this help?