Moral vs. non-moral attribution in adolescence: Environmental and behavioural correlates

Bacchini, Dario; Affuso, Gaetana; Angelis, Grazia De

doi:10.1080/17405629.2012.744744

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“…The sum of the responses to each item was converted into a single index of frequency of ASB. This scale has been used in previous studies and has always showed good reliability indices and associations with values that were coherent with the Theory of Schwartz (Bacchini et al, ; Bacchini, Affuso, & De Angelis, ). The factor structure of the scale was assessed with CFA.…”

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Three‐year cross‐lagged relationships among adolescents’ antisocial behavior, personal values, and judgment of wrongness

2018

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The current study examines reciprocal relations among adolescents' values, antisocial behavior (ASB), and judgment of the wrongness of ASB over 3 years. Four hundred seven (M age 5 14.36 years; SD 5 .72; males 5 56.8%) ninth grade students in Italy completed the Portrait Values Questionnaire, a self-reported ASB scale, and a questionnaire aimed to evaluate how wrong they judged it to be to violate a set of moral and social rules. Responses were obtained again after 1 and 2 years. We analyzed separate cross-lagged models for each of the higher-order value dimensions according to Schwartz's model (conservation, openness to change, self-enhancement, and self-transcendence), using structural equation models. Self-transcendence and conservation values fostered more negative judgments and less ASB over time whereas selfenhancement and openness to change values had no effects. The mediating effect of judgment on the relationship between values and ASB was significant. Moreover, ASB mediated the effects of conservation on subsequent judgments. The results highlight the role of self-transcendence and conservation values as protective factors against ASBs in adolescence. K E Y W O R D S adolescence, antisocial behavior, longitudinal studies, values

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Three‐year cross‐lagged relationships among adolescents’ antisocial behavior, personal values, and judgment of wrongness

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“…The study by Wilkinson and Carr [66] tried to raise this point using qualitative data from male violent offenders, finding that individuals respond to exposure to violence, without distinguishing between violence witnessing or victimization, in many ways, some of which would be consistent with traditional concepts of moral disengagement. Bacchini et al [67], for example, found that higher levels of exposure to community violence as a witness reduced the strength of moral criteria for judging moral violations. Other studies have found that being witness, but not victims, of community violence was associated with socio-cognitive biases in processing social situations [49].…”

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Pathways Linking Exposure to Community Violence, Self-serving Cognitive Distortions and School Bullying Perpetration: A Three-Wave Study

Dragone

Esposito

Angelis

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School bullying is a social phenomenon stemming from a complex interrelationship between the individuals and their environments. Underpinned by the social-ecological models, this study investigated the mediation of self-serving cognitive distortions (CDs) in the relationship between community violence exposure, as a victim and as a witness, and bullying perpetration. Bidirectional associations between violence exposure and bullying perpetration, and between CDs and bullying perpetration over time were also hypothesized. The study used a three-waves cross-lagged panel modeling in a sample of 829 Italian high school adolescents (46% males; Mage [Time 1; T1] = 12.71; Standard deviation [SD] = 1.68). The results showed that being exposed to community violence as a witness at T1 increased the development of CDs at Time 2 (T2), which in turn promoted the bullying perpetration at Time 3 (T3). Being exposed to community violence as a victim was not a significant predictor of CDs and bullying perpetration over time. Bidirectional associations were found between witnessing violence and bullying perpetration, and between CDs and bullying perpetration. The association between community violence exposure and individual moral cognitions over time plays a crucial role in predicting bullying perpetration. These findings highlight the need to consider both contextual and individual factors in understanding and preventing bullying perpetration.

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“…The wider social context could also exert its influence on moral disengagement attitudes. For instance, some authors reported that the level of criminality and violence affect moral reasoning and moral emotions, leading children who come from a violent background to be more morally disengaged, in comparison to children coming from fairer social contexts (Bacchini, Affuso, & De Angelis, 2013;Menesini et al, 2003). Thus, we argue that individual and contextual variables have to be taken into account in order to better explain developmental trajectories of guilt and moral disengagement in children and adolescents involved in bullying.…”

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Interactive effects of guilt and moral disengagement on bullying, defending and outsider behavior

Mazzone

Camodeca

Salmivalli

2016

Journal of Moral Education

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We examined the moderating effect of guilt on the associations between moral disengagement and bullying, defending, and outsider behaviors in a sample of 404 students (203 boys; Mage = 11.09 years; SD = 1.48). Bullying, defending, and outsider behavior were assessed through peer nominations, whereas guilt and moral disengagement were assessed by self-reports. Results showed that moral disengagement was associated with high levels of bullying and low levels of defending. Guilt was negatively associated with bullying and positively with defending. A moderating effect for guilt was also found: Increasing levels of moral disengagement contributed to more bullying and outsider behavior, and to less defending, among students with low levels of guilt. The current research broadens the extant literature, showing the combined effects of guilt and moral disengagement on bullying-related behaviors.

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Moral vs. non-moral attribution in adolescence: Environmental and behavioural correlates

Cited by 18 publications

References 43 publications

Three‐year cross‐lagged relationships among adolescents’ antisocial behavior, personal values, and judgment of wrongness

Three‐year cross‐lagged relationships among adolescents’ antisocial behavior, personal values, and judgment of wrongness

Pathways Linking Exposure to Community Violence, Self-serving Cognitive Distortions and School Bullying Perpetration: A Three-Wave Study

Interactive effects of guilt and moral disengagement on bullying, defending and outsider behavior

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