Longitudinal Links of Individual and Collective Morality with Adolescents' Peer Aggression.

ABSTRACT: Adolescents' aggressive behavior has been often linked to biases in morality. However, limited knowledge is available regarding the relative strength of different moral correlates, both at the individual and class-level, in predicting different types of aggressive behavior over time. To address this gap, the present study tested the prospective associations of moral identity and moral disengagement with reactive and proactive aggression in a short-term longitudinal study. The sample consisted of 1158 Italian adolescents (48.7% females; M_age = 13.6 years, SD = 1.1). Participants completed self-report measures of moral identity, moral disengagement, perceived collective moral disengagement in the fall, and reactive and proactive aggression in the fall and in the spring. Multivaria

SUBMITTER: Gini G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8881436 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature