@article{ref1,
title="Religiousness and aggression in adolescents: the mediating roles of self-control and compassion",
journal="Aggressive behavior",
year="2015",
author="Shepperd, James A. and Miller, Wendi A. and Smith, Colin Tucker",
volume="41",
number="6",
pages="608-621",
abstract="Although people have used religion to justify aggression, evidence suggests that greater religiousness corresponds with less aggression. We explored two explanations for the religion-aggression link. First, most major religions teach self-control (e.g., delaying gratification, resisting temptation), which diminishes aggression. Second, most major religions emphasize compassionate beliefs and behavior (i.e., perspective taking, forgiveness, a broader love of humanity) that are incompatible with aggression. We tested whether self-control and compassion mediated the relationship between religion and aggression (direct and indirect) in a longitudinal study of 1,040 adolescents in the United States. Structural equation analyses revealed that self-control and compassion together completely mediated the religion-aggression relationship for both types of aggression. Aggr. Behav. 9999:1-14, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-140X",
doi="10.1002/ab.21600",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ab.21600"
}