@article{ref1,
title="Understanding the moral cognition of aggression: longitudinal serial effects of personal relative deprivation and hostility on within-person changes in civic moral disengagement",
journal="Aggressive behavior",
year="2024",
author="Li, Zuo-Shan and Li, Xiong and Xia, Ling-Xiang",
volume="50",
number="4",
pages="e22164-e22164",
abstract="Moral disengagement is an important aggressive and moral cognition. The mechanisms of changes in moral disengagement remain unclear, especially at the within-person level. We attempted to clarify this by exploring the serial effects of personal relative deprivation and hostility on civic moral disengagement. We conducted a three-wave longitudinal survey with 1058 undergraduates (63.61% women; mean age = 20.97). The results of the random intercept cross-lagged panel model showed that personal relative deprivation at Wave 1 and hostility at Wave 2 formed a serial effect on the within-person changes in civic moral disengagement at Wave 3, and the longitudinal indirect effect test showed that the within-person dynamics in hostility at Wave 2 acted as a mediator. The results of multiple group analysis across genders further showed that the longitudinal indirect role of hostility at Wave 2 was only observed for men, but not for women, which indicates the moderating effect of gender. These findings facilitate an understanding of the mechanisms of aggressive cognitions at the within-person level and offer implications for the prevention and intervention of aggression from the perspective of moral cognition.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-140X",
doi="10.1002/ab.22164",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ab.22164"
}