The Structure of Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions

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

doi:10.1177/0748175615596779

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“…At each time point, participants responded to the 39 items in the, "How I think Questionnaire" (HIT) (Barriga et al 2001; Italian validation by Bacchini et al (2016)), measuring selfserving cognitive distortions. Each item was rated on a 6-point Likert scale from, "agree strongly" to "disagree strongly."…”

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Effortful Control and Community Violence Exposure as Predictors of Developmental Trajectories of Self-serving Cognitive Distortions in Adolescence: A Growth Mixture Modeling Approach

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Dragone

et al. 2020

J Youth Adolescence

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Self-serving cognitive distortions are biased or rationalizing beliefs and thoughts that originate from the individual persistence into immature moral judgment stages during adolescence and adulthood, increasing the individual’s engagement in antisocial or immoral conducts. To date, the literature examining trajectories of cognitive distortions over time and their precursors is limited. This study sought to fill this gap, by examining effortful control and community violence exposure as individual and environmental precursors to developmental trajectories of cognitive distortions in adolescence. The sample consisted of 803 Italian high school students (349 males; Mage = 14.19, SD = 0.57). Three trajectories of cognitive distortions were identified: (1) moderately high and stable cognitive distortions (N = 311), (2) moderate and decreasing cognitive distortions (N = 363), and (3) low and decreasing cognitive distortions (N = 129). Both low effortful control and high exposure to community violence were significant predictors for moderately high and stable trajectory of cognitive distortions. These results point to the importance of considering moral development as a process involving multiple levels of individual ecology, highlighting the need to further explore how dispositional and environmental factors might undermine developmental processes of morality.

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Section: Self-serving Cognitive Distortionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effortful Control and Community Violence Exposure as Predictors of Developmental Trajectories of Self-serving Cognitive Distortions in Adolescence: A Growth Mixture Modeling Approach

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Affuso

Dragone

et al. 2020

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Participants were asked to respond to the 39 items of the How I think Questionnaire (HIT; [54]; Italian validation by [77]), measuring self-serving CDs. Each item was rated on a 6-point Likert scale (from 1 = agree strongly to 6 = disagree strongly).…”

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

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Angelis

et al. 2019

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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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“…Moreover, it is important to note that the externalization of behaviours from the self-serving distortions is generally an outcome of the neutralization of compassion and guilt through processes such as misattributing blame to others or minimizing the consequences of one's antisocial actions [ 20 ]. Even, the literature reveals that self-serving cognitive distortions result in delinquent, proactive aggressive, and reactive aggressive behaviour [ 27 ], and antisocial [ 14 , 28 ] and deviant behaviours [ 18 , 19 ].…”

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One pot sets another boiling: A case of social learning perspective about leader self-serving behaviour and followers self-serving counterproductive work behaviour

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Khassawneh

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The Structure of Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions

Cited by 19 publications

References 23 publications

Effortful Control and Community Violence Exposure as Predictors of Developmental Trajectories of Self-serving Cognitive Distortions in Adolescence: A Growth Mixture Modeling Approach

Effortful Control and Community Violence Exposure as Predictors of Developmental Trajectories of Self-serving Cognitive Distortions in Adolescence: A Growth Mixture Modeling Approach

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

One pot sets another boiling: A case of social learning perspective about leader self-serving behaviour and followers self-serving counterproductive work behaviour

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