Moral disengagement mechanisms and its relationship with aggression and bullying behaviour among school children and youth at psychosocial risk

Tabares, Ányerson Stiths Gómez; Landínez-Martínez, Daniel Alfredo

doi:10.1080/13632752.2021.1945801

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“…Administering a battery of tests to a group of 277 undergraduates, Walters and Yurvati (2017) discovered that the moral disengagement scale included in the Walters (2019) investigation and the neutralization scale included in the current study both loaded heavily onto a proactive criminal thinking/cognitive insensitivity latent factor. Recent studies have shown that moral disengagement (Mazzone et al, 2021; Tabares & Landinez-Martinez, 2021) and neutralization beliefs (Siebert & Stewart, 2019; Zych et al, 2020) are related to a variety of child and adolescent antisocial behaviors, to include aggression, bullying, and delinquency. Neutralization but not moral disengagement was included in the current study because this was the cognitive insensitivity measure that was administered to participants in the current sample.…”

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Mediating the Bullying-to-Delinquency Transition With Peer Delinquency and Cognitive Insensitivity

Walters

Runell

Kremser

2022

Crime & Delinquency

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This study sought to determine whether peer delinquency, cognitive insensitivity, and/or their interaction mediated the transition from bullying perpetration to delinquency. Data from 845 early adolescent youth (406 boys, 439 girls) organized into three waves were subjected to path analysis, with peer delinquency and cognitive insensitivity as parallel mediators. Results revealed that cognitive insensitivity successfully mediated the relationship between Wave 1 bullying perpetration and Wave 3 participant delinquency, whereas peer delinquency and the peer × insensitivity interaction did not. It would seem that involvement in bullying behavior may lead to a rise in antisocial thinking of the neutralization/moral disengagement type and that this thinking, referred to in this study as cognitive insensitivity, may then stimulate future involvement in delinquent behavior.

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Section: Finding a Mechanismmentioning

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Mediating the Bullying-to-Delinquency Transition With Peer Delinquency and Cognitive Insensitivity

Walters

Runell

Kremser

2022

Crime & Delinquency

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“…Moral disengagement is a set of psychological mechanisms used to disengage transgressive behaviour from the self-sanctions that keep behaviour in line with moral standards [ 2 , 7 ]. These mechanisms consist of eight cognitive strategies converting a transgressive behaviour into an acceptable one to keep the behaviour in line with moral standards [ 8 ]. The strategies are: moral justification, euphemistic labelling, advantageous comparison, displacement of responsibility, diffusion of responsibility, distortion of consequences, dehumanization, and attribution of blame [ 9 ].…”

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Moral Disengagement in Youth Athletes: A Narrative Review

Gentile

Milovanović

Pišot

et al. 2022

JFMK

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The sports environment can be considered as a context characterized by interactions typical of social groups, where children have the chance to learn good values. Positive and negative behaviours in sports, also called prosocial and antisocial behaviours, have been studied according to a moral perspective, as has doping behaviour, taking into consideration the concept of moral disengagement. Moral disengagement in children has been associated with maladaptive behaviours later in life, even though it should disappear with growth. Concerning the sports environment, previous reviews on the topic have extensively illustrated the role of moral variables in sport and their relation to antisocial behaviour and doping, positing some research questions that should be investigated in the future. Starting from these questions, the current narrative review aims to update literature about the effects of moral disengagement on youth athletes. Therefore, new studies about the predictors of moral disengagement are introduced, followed by contributions concerning the relationship between moral disengagement and doping and between moral disengagement and antisocial behaviour. Finally, the review summarizes which research questions have been solved in the last decade and which should be researched further on.

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“…Currently, there are no validation studies available on the dimensionality and psychometric properties of this instrument in Latin American contexts, and more specifically, with a population of young university students in Colombia, which justifies the development of this study. In Colombia, studies have been found that have used this scale to assess moral disengagement in relation to prosocial tendencies, antisocial behavior, and empathy in young offenders who break the law (Cabrera et al, 2020;, adolescents that have become separated from the armed conflict Gómez & Durán, 2021b), and schoolchildren (Gómez & Landinez, 2021). In these works, a reliability index was reported with Cronbach's alpha that ranges from .78 to .91 for the total scale and mechanisms.…”

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Factorial Invariance of the Mechanisms of the Moral Disengagement Scale

Gómez-Tabare

Núñez

Grisales-Aguirre

et al. 2024

Anuario De Psicología Jurídica

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The objective of this paper was to analyze the factorial structure, psychometric characteristics, and factorial invariance by sex, age, and city of the Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement Scale in young university students. A total of 1,431 young people between the ages of 18 and 30 (M = 20.86, SD = 3.64) from two Colombian cities participated in the study. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test four hypothesized models. The CFA confirmed a first-order factor structure grouping the eight mechanisms of moral disengagement (Model 4), which explained 54.17% of the total variance. The final model obtained a good fit, χ 2 = 12.514, RMSEA = .010, TLI = .999, AGFI = .993, CFI = 1.00, ECVI = .044, CMIN/ df = 1.138. Factorial invariance by sex, age and city of the final proposed model was confirmed. Moral disengagement mechanisms were negatively correlated with empathy and prosocial tendencies. It is concluded that this scale is valid and reliable to assess moral disengagement in Colombian youth.

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Moral disengagement mechanisms and its relationship with aggression and bullying behaviour among school children and youth at psychosocial risk

Cited by 8 publications

References 74 publications

Mediating the Bullying-to-Delinquency Transition With Peer Delinquency and Cognitive Insensitivity

Mediating the Bullying-to-Delinquency Transition With Peer Delinquency and Cognitive Insensitivity

Moral Disengagement in Youth Athletes: A Narrative Review

Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Factorial Invariance of the Mechanisms of the Moral Disengagement Scale

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