Moral disengagement and willingness to behave unethically against ex-partner in a child custody dispute.

ABSTRACT: The current study examines the role of moral disengagement on the likelihood of making false allegations or retaliating against the partner in a child custody dispute. Moral disengagement strategies can be useful to explain this tendency to harm their partner in a custody dispute, because they help reduce the aversive state caused by the dissonance provoked when the ethical principles of the individual do not match their behavior. An individual that is able to lessen the negative affect anticipated before committing a transgression, would be more likely to engage in it. A sample of 1097 Spanish adults who had experienced a break up with their partner and had children participated in the study. They were evenly divided by sex and their mean age was 39.95 (SD = 8.89). They answered to a vign

SUBMITTER: Clemente M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6415824 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature