Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padua, Padova, Italy.
Aggress Behav. 2014 Jan;40(1):56-68. doi: 10.1002/ab.21502. Epub 2013 Sep 13.
A growing body of research has demonstrated consistent links between Bandura's theory of moral disengagement and aggressive behavior in adults. The present meta-analysis was conducted to summarize the existing literature on the relation between moral disengagement and different types of aggressive behavior among school-age children and adolescents. Twenty-seven independent samples with a total of 17,776 participants (aged 8-18 years) were included in the meta-analysis. Results indicated a positive overall effect (r = .28, 95% CI [.23, .32]), supporting the hypothesis that moral disengagement is a significant correlate of aggressive behavior among children and youth. Analyses of a priori moderators revealed that effect sizes were larger for adolescents as compared to children, for studies that used a revised version of the original Bandura scale, and for studies with shared method variance. Effect sizes did not vary as a function of type of aggressive behavior, gender, or publication status. Results are discussed within the extant literature on moral disengagement and future directions are proposed.
越来越多的研究表明，班杜拉的道德去责任化理论与成年人的攻击行为之间存在一致的联系。本元分析旨在总结现有文献，探讨道德去责任化与学龄儿童和青少年不同类型攻击行为之间的关系。元分析共纳入 27 个独立样本，总计 17776 名参与者（年龄 8-18 岁）。结果表明，道德去责任化与攻击行为之间存在显著的正相关（r=.28，95%CI [.23，.32]），支持了道德去责任化是儿童和青少年攻击行为的重要相关因素的假设。对先验调节变量的分析表明，与儿童相比，青少年的效应量更大，与使用原始班杜拉量表修订版的研究相比，以及与具有共同方法变异的研究相比，效应量更大。攻击行为的类型、性别或发表状态与效应大小无关。结果在道德去责任化的现有文献中进行了讨论，并提出了未来的研究方向。
