Risk Factors Related to Cognitive Distortions Toward Women and Moral Disengagement: A Study on Sex Offenders

D’Urso, Giulio; Petruccelli, Irene; Grilli, Simona; Pace, Ugo

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“…Moral disengagement (MD) has been studied as a predictor of aggression and crime [ 32 , 33 ], bullying [ 34 , 35 , 36 ] and cyberbullying [ 37 ], aggression in young people [ 4 , 38 , 39 , 40 ], intimate partner violence [ 41 , 42 ], and terrorism, among others [ 43 , 44 , 45 ]. Moral disengagement is conceptually defined as the psychological process through which self-reactions are disconnected from inhuman behavior [ 46 ], allowing inhuman behaviors to be carried out with little or no self-reproach [ 47 ].…”

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Personal and Environmental Predictors of Aggression in Adolescence

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This study aims to find causal factors of aggression in a group of Latino adolescents to achieve a greater understanding of human nature, taking into account personal and contextual variables. The fundamental hypothesis is that moral disengagement, personality traits, self-esteem, values, parenting, sex, and socioeconomic situation can function as possible casual factors of aggression in adolescents. The study examined the variables using the structural equations model (SEM) to determine causal factors of aggression in a sample of 827 adolescents (54% men and 46% women) between 11 and 16 years of age. According to the scientific literature review, sociodemographic, personal, and familiar variables were included in the causal model. The influence of the variables occurred in two ways: one that inhibits aggression and the other that reinforces it. The results are discussed based on identifying protective and risk factors against aggression: biological sex and values of conformity and transcendence as aggression’s inhibitors and, on the other hand, openness, moral disengagement, and leadership values as the most important predictors of aggression.

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Personal and Environmental Predictors of Aggression in Adolescence

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“…The mechanisms have already been investigated, for instance, on similarly complex issues involving death, such as the execution of prisoners (Osofsky et al, 2005) and terrorists (Bandura, 2004). However, regarding aggressions against women, studies have focused more on the crime of rape (D'Urso et al, 2019) and sexual harassment at work (Page & Pina, 2018), but not the more extreme violence of murder by a partner. In Brazil, studies of moral disengagement are still scarce and those that have examined moral disengagement have been limited to traffic violations (Neto et al, 2012), corporate crimes (Medeiros et al, 2018), and bullying (Silva et al, 2020).…”

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“If not Mine, She Won't Belong to Another”: Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement in a Femicide Perpetrator from Brazil

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Violence Against Women

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Case files can show how aggressors use different explanations to reduce the seriousness of their crime. We aimed to identify and categorize a 2016 Brazilian case file from a perpetrator of femicide, based on moral disengagement theory. Content analysis yielded 47 verbalized excerpts, with 70 disengagement occurrences. The most frequently used mechanisms throughout the aggressor's speeches consisted of moral justification and blaming the victim herself. Results indicated that he reduced the seriousness of the femicide and sought reduction of the consequences. We discuss how speeches in criminal cases can serve as a secondary source for producing data on violence.

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“…Terkait dengan fenomena pencabulan, moral disengagement berkorelasi positif dengan kecenderungan pria melakukan pelecehan seksual di kantor (Page & Pina, 2015, 2018. Hasil penelitian ini sejalan dengan temuan bahwa tingkat moral disengagement pelaku kejahatan seksual ternyata lebih tinggi dibandingkan pelaku kejahatan non seksual (D'Urso, Petruccelli, Grilli, & Pace, 2019;Petruccelli dkk., 2017).…”

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Psikodinamika moral disengagement remaja pelaku pencabulan: Sebuah studi kasus instrumental

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Suryanto

Putra

2020

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There are many juvenile sex offender cases in Indonesia. This study aimed to reveal how the psychodynamics of moral disengagement on juvenile sex offenders. Through moral disengagement, juvenile sex offenders commit various rationalizations to negate the feelings of guilt. This research used the qualitative method of an instrumental case study. The participants were seven juvenile sex offenders. The collecting data through semi-structured interviews and analyzed through the stages of categorization and direct interpretation, correspondence and patterns, and naturalistic generalization. The credibility used data triangulation and asked the participants to read the interview transcript. The results showed the psychodynamic of juvenile sex offenders began by forming moral disengagement before the occurrence of sexual abuse or initiation phase. After committing fornication, adolescents could feel guilty or not feel guilty due to moral disengagement. This study showed that participants frequently used the attribution of blame, dehumanization, distortion of consequences. The theoretical implications were that moral disengagement also functions to overcome fear after moral violation and different forms of moral disengagement from theory, namely active avoidance.Keywords: Instrumental case study; Juvenile sex perpetrators; Moral disengagement AbstrakPencabulan oleh remaja masih banyak terjadi di Indonesia. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengungkap bagaimana psikodinamika moral disengagement remaja pelaku pencabulan. Melalui moral disengagement, remaja pelaku pencabulan melakukan berbagai bentuk rasionalisasi untuk meniadakan perasaan bersalah. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif studi kasus instrumental. Partisipan penelitian adalah tujuh remaja pelaku pencabulan. Pengambilan data menggunakan wawancara semi terstruktur. Analisa data melalui tahapan kategorisasi dan interpretasi langsung, korespondensi dan pola, serta generalisasi naturalistik. Kredibilitas penelitian menggunakan triangulasi data dan meminta informan membaca transkrip wawancara. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan psikodinamika remaja pelaku pencabulan diawali dengan membentuk moral disengagement sebelum terjadinya pencabulan, yaitu pada fase inisiasi. Setelah pencabulan atau fase pasca pencabulan, remaja dapat merasa bersalah namun dapat pula tetap tidak merasa bersalah karena moral disengagement. Bentuk moral disengagement yang banyak digunakan partisipan adalah atribusi menyalahkan, dehumanisasi, distorsi konsekuensi. Implikasi teoritis adalah moral disengagement juga berfungsi mengatasi perasaan takut setelah pelanggaran moral dan bentuk moral disengagement yang berbeda dengan teori yaitu penghindaran aktif.Keywords: Moral disengagement; Remaja pelaku pencabulan; Studi kasus Instrumental

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Risk Factors Related to Cognitive Distortions Toward Women and Moral Disengagement: A Study on Sex Offenders

Cited by 21 publications

References 50 publications

Personal and Environmental Predictors of Aggression in Adolescence

Personal and Environmental Predictors of Aggression in Adolescence

“If not Mine, She Won't Belong to Another”: Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement in a Femicide Perpetrator from Brazil

Psikodinamika moral disengagement remaja pelaku pencabulan: Sebuah studi kasus instrumental

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