Differential and Domain-Specific Associations Among Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Adolescent Delinquency

Oosterhoff, Benjamin; Shook, Natalie J.; Clay, Russ; Metzger, Aaron

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“…Delinquency Hate crime, as the conjunction of extremist attitudes and crime, can lead to the identification of a clear relationship between ideologies and criminality. Prominent figures of the extreme right, as well as the Islamist spectrum, often have a criminal record, yet the relationship between ideologies and criminal behavior is not clear given that extremist attitudes are far more prevalent than extremist acts (Campelo et al, 2018;Cherney, 2020;Oosterhoff et al, 2017). The relationship between extremist attitudes and behavior is, however, supported by studies (Kliem et al, 2018;Talaska et al, 2008).…”

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Radicalization in Adolescence: the Identification of Vulnerable Groups

Schröder

Bruns

Lehmann

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Eur J Crim Policy Res

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Given that the normative search for identity and belonging, as well as political socialization, plays an important role during adolescence, this life stage is characterized by high vulnerability to radicalization processes. When investigating the influence of different factors on radicalization processes, latent profile analysis can identify and analyze groups of adolescents with different vulnerabilities. Based on a sample of 6,715 ninth-graders from Germany, we identified six latent classes with specific vulnerabilities to right-wing attitudes as one possible outcome of radicalization. The results show that the class with the highest approval of right-wing statements mainly consists of male adolescents with a high sense of relative disadvantage and social deprivation. Specific family ties constitute a unique feature among those who are indifferent in their attitudes.

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Radicalization in Adolescence: the Identification of Vulnerable Groups

Schröder

Bruns

Lehmann

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Eur J Crim Policy Res

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“…As they were assessed as unidimensional constructs, the particular effect of each dimension might be distinct and overlooked, as indicated by previous studies (e.g., Duckitt & Bizumic, 2013; Kteily et al, 2015). For instance, the Authoritarianism dimension might be unrelated to corrupt intention, whereas the Traditionalism dimension might be negatively related to it due to the “anti-delinquency” potential of support to traditional moral values (i.e., Alencar, 2019; Oosterhoff et al, 2017). Again, interested researchers could use our publicly available data to start this investigation.…”

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A dual process social psychological model of corrupt intention and attitudes toward corrupt people.

Vilanova¹,

Milfont²,

Costa³

2022

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Preliminary studies indicate that ideologies and worldviews are key in understanding the motivation behind corruption. Yet, there is no model seeking to explain corrupt intention that incorporates ideology and worldviews as predictors. Our objective was to propose a model integrating ideological factors (social dominance orientation [SDO] and right-wing authoritarianism [RWA]) and their underlying worldviews (competitive worldview beliefs [CWB] and dangerous worldview beliefs [DWB]) as predictors of corrupt intention and attitudes toward corrupt people and examine the model in the high corruption context of Brazil. For that purpose, preregistered hypotheses were tested across six studies. Results confirmed that corrupt intention is predicted by SDO but not RWA, while attitudes toward corrupt people are predicted by RWA but not SDO (Studies 1, 2, and 4). Replicating these findings cross-culturally, World Values Survey data (Study 3) indicated that corrupt intention is predicted by a proxy SDO index but not by a proxy RWA index. Experimentally increasing DWB amplified corrupt intention, but attitudes toward corrupt people remained unaffected (Study 5). Study 6 further confirmed the independence of corrupt intention and attitudes toward corrupt people, with corrupt intention primarily predicted by CWB and attitudes toward corrupt people primarily predicted by RWA. Hence, the first social psychological model that seeks to explain corruption integrating ideologies and worldviews was successfully proposed with implications for future research.

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“…However, it was generally expected that adolescents would vary in their assumptions concerning internal attributions for crime, the perceived prevalence of crime, beliefs that authority is more knowledgeable than others, and beliefs that punishment teaches right from wrong, and that greater endorsement of these assumptions would be associated with greater punishment judgments for law violations. Additionally, prior research has shown that adolescents' sociopolitical values are associated with domain‐specific beliefs about laws (Oosterhoff et al, 2017) and informational assumptions (Mirels & Dean, 2006). Thus, analyses accounted for youths' endorsement of right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation.…”

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“…Potentially, youth who endorse greater social dominance orientation may support greater punishment for violating laws that regulate personal issues as a means of promoting hierarchy and expressing power. Prior research also indicates that youth who endorse higher social dominance orientation are more engaged in substance use, which may be a means of promoting peer status and establishing social hierarchy (Oosterhoff et al, 2017). Accordingly, those higher in social dominance orientation may ascribe lower punishment judgments for drug‐related prudential issues because they may be engaging in substance use themselves.…”

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“…Some of this variability may be accounted for by individual differences in youths' emerging social and political values systems. For instance, Oosterhoff, Shook, Clay, and Metzger (2017) found that youths' sociopolitical values concerning right-wing authoritarian and social dominance orientation were differentially associated with their beliefs about laws that regulate domain-specific behaviors. However, less research has examined the ways in which youths' views of punishment align with other facets of political understanding, including their factual assumptions about the nature and prevalence of crime, purpose of laws, and competence of authority.…”

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A matter of fact? Adolescents' assumptions about crime, laws, and authority and their domain‐specific beliefs about punishment

Oosterhoff

Shook

Metzger

2017

Journal of Adolescence

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This study examined adolescents' beliefs about the amount of punishment individuals should receive for violating different laws and whether these beliefs are connected with their informational assumptions (i.e., perceived facts) about crime, laws, and authority. American adolescents (N = 340; M age = 16.64, 58.2% female) reported their judgments concerning the appropriate punishment for violating laws regulating domain-specific behaviors and their informational assumptions regarding the prevalence and causes of crime, beliefs that authority is knowledgeable, and the purpose of punishment. Greater internal attributions for crime was associated with stronger punishment judgments for violating laws that regulate moral and conventional issues. Greater beliefs that punishment teaches right from wrong was associated with stronger punishment judgments for violating laws that regulate drug-related prudential issues, and lower punishment judgments for violating laws that regulate personal issues. Greater beliefs that authorities are more knowledgeable than others was associated with stronger punishment judgments for violating laws that regulate personal issues.Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by substantial gains in sociopolitical understanding and greater contact with social and legal organizations (Moffitt, 1993;Smetana & Villalobos, 2009). During adolescence, youth are forming more nuanced beliefs about the nature and role of social and political systems, including whether certain issues should be subject to social regulation and how authorities should respond if these laws are violated. Adolescents' concepts of law-breaking and punishment are pertinent components of their sociopolitical understanding (Oosterhoff & Metzger, 2017), because they have important implications for social and political attitudes and behavior. For instance, beliefs about punishment for law-breaking are foundational to attitudes concerning social policies and practices involving the criminal justice system, such as length of prison sentences, use of the death penalty, and readiness to criminalize socially disapproved behaviors (Duckitt, 2009). Adolescents' beliefs about punishment may also have implications for their involvement in delinquency, as youth who ascribe greater punishment for law violations are less likely to engage in delinquent behaviors themselves .To date, the majority of research examining beliefs about punishment has utilized adult samples and has focused on support for the death penalty or longer prison sentences. Less is known about youths' ascriptions of punishment for violating laws that regulate different forms of crime and delinquency, or how these beliefs intersect with other facets of their emerging sociopolitical understanding. Social domain scholars propose that variation in social beliefs may be explained by differences in "informational assumptions," which represent an individual's perceived fact-based understanding of social events and behaviors (Wainryb, 1991).

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Differential and Domain-Specific Associations Among Right-Wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Adolescent Delinquency

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

Radicalization in Adolescence: the Identification of Vulnerable Groups

Radicalization in Adolescence: the Identification of Vulnerable Groups

A dual process social psychological model of corrupt intention and attitudes toward corrupt people.

A matter of fact? Adolescents' assumptions about crime, laws, and authority and their domain‐specific beliefs about punishment

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