Moral Disengagement as a Self-Regulatory Cognitive Process of Transgressions: Psychometric Evidence of the Bandura Scale in Chilean Adolescents

Primer Autor
Concha-Salgado, Andres
Co-autores
Ramirez, Angelica
Perez, Beatriz
Perez-Luco, Ricardo
Garcia-Cueto, Eduardo
Título
Moral Disengagement as a Self-Regulatory Cognitive Process of Transgressions: Psychometric Evidence of the Bandura Scale in Chilean Adolescents
Editorial
MDPI
Revista
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Lenguaje
en
Resumen
Moral disengagement is a process of cognitive restructuring that allows individuals to disassociate from their internal moral standards and behave unethically without feeling distressed. It has been described as a key predictor of maladaptive behaviors (e.g., delinquency, aggression, and cyberbullying) and as a mediator between individual variables and unethical outcomes (e.g., empathy and aggression). We aimed to provide evidence of validity based on the internal structure, reliability, and correlations with other constructs of the most used instrument to measure disengagement from moral self-sanctions: Bandura's Mechanisms of Moral Disengagement Scale (MMDS). A non-probabilistic national sample of 528 Chilean adolescents from 14 to 18 years participated in the study. The results showed that the 10-item version of the MMDS had a unidimensional structure and good internal consistency. As expected, the MMDS-10 showed positive and medium correlations with abusive, violent antisocial, and delinquent behaviors and negative and medium associations with prosocial behavior and empathy. Additionally, moral disengagement fully mediated the relationship between empathy and violent antisocial behavior, supporting the hypothesis on moral disengagement as a self-regulatory cognitive process. The results confirm previous research, and the findings are discussed in terms of their implications for reducing the use of moral disengagement strategies in adolescence.
Tipo de Recurso
artículo original
Description
This research was funded by the National Research and Development Agency of Chile (Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo [ANID]) Grant 21180734 and the Direccion de Investigacion, Universidad de La Frontera, Project DIUFRO DI21-0106.
doi
10.3390/ijerph191912249
Formato Recurso
PDF
Palabras Claves
moral disengagement
scale
psychometric properties
violent antisocial behavior
delinquency
abusive behavior
prosocial behavior
empathy
adolescents
mediator
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS
INITIAL VALIDATION
CANNABIS USE
AGGRESSION
MECHANISMS
EMPATHY
EFFICACY
DIMENSIONALITY
DISCONNECTION
DELINQUENCY
Ubicación del archivo
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912249
Categoría OCDE
Ciencias Ambientales
Salud pública
ambiental y ocupacional
Materias
desvinculación moral
escala
propiedades psicométricas
comportamiento antisocial violento
delincuencia
comportamiento abusivo
comportamiento prosocial
empatía
adolescentes
mediador
angustia psicológica
Validación inicial
CONSUMO DE CANNABIS
AGRESIÓN
MECANISMOS
EMPATÍA
EFICACIA
DIMENSIONALIDAD
DESCONEXIÓN
DELINCUENCIA
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Moral Disengagement as a Self-Regulatory Cognitive Process of Transgressions: Psychometric Evidence of the Bandura Scale in Chilean Adolescents
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artículo original
Versión del recurso (Recomendado-único)
version publicada
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CC BY 4.0
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CC BY 4.0
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acceso abierto
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Referencia del Financiador (Mandatado si es aplicable-repetible)
ANID 21180734
UFRO DIUFRO DI21-0106]
Id de Web of Science
WOS:000866757500001
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