The effect of social and situational factors on the intended response to aggression among adolescents.
In this study, I explored intended response to aggression among adolescents. I drew hypotheses from social identity theory, cost/benefit considerations, and social information processing model. I asked 217 Jewish and Muslim male adolescents in this study to assess their intended use of aggression in 12 hypothetical conflict situations (vignettes), in which I manipulated the opponent's religion, gender, acquaintance, and severity of aggression. I mainly found that male adolescents respond to aggression by same-religion opponents more moderately than to cross-religion aggression; their response is more moderate to cross-gender aggression than to same-gender aggression; response is more moderate to the aggression of familiar opponents than to that of unfamiliar ones; and response is less severe toward moderate than toward severe aggression.
Winstok
Zeev
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The Center for the Study of Society, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel. zeevwin@research.haifa.ac.il
D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D007514:Islam / Q000523:psychology*; D007557:Israel; D007585:Jews / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012933:Social Identification; D012938:Social Perception; D012951:Socialization