Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.
Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University.
Dev Psychol. 2014 Jan;50(1):71-85. doi: 10.1037/a0034488. Epub 2013 Sep 23.
This study examines the role of moral disengagement in fostering engagement in aggression and violence through adolescence to young adulthood in accordance with a design in which the study of individual differences and of their relations is instrumental to address underlying intraindividual structures and process conducive to detrimental conduct. Participants were 345 young adults (52% females) who were followed across 4 time periods (T1 M age = 17 years to T4 M age = 25 years). The longitudinal relations among irritability, hostile rumination, and moral disengagement attest to a conceptual model in which moral disengagement is crucial in giving access to action to aggressive tendencies. Findings suggest that irritability and hostile rumination contributed to the development of each other reciprocally and significantly across time. While hostile rumination and moral disengagement significantly mediated the relation between irritability and violence, moral disengagement significantly mediated the relation between hostile rumination and violence.
本研究通过个体差异研究及其关系研究，按照设计方案，考察了道德脱离在促进青少年向青年期的攻击性和暴力行为中的作用，该方案旨在探讨有利于不良行为的内在个体结构和过程。参与者为 345 名年轻人（女性占 52%），他们在 4 个时间段（T1 平均年龄=17 岁至 T4 平均年龄=25 岁）进行了跟踪研究。易激惹、敌意反刍和道德脱离之间的纵向关系证明了一个概念模型，即道德脱离对于攻击性倾向的行为具有重要作用。研究结果表明，易激惹和敌意反刍在时间上相互促进，彼此之间存在显著的交互关系。敌意反刍和道德脱离显著中介了易激惹和暴力之间的关系，而道德脱离则显著中介了敌意反刍和暴力之间的关系。
