MORAL DISENGAGEMENT--MEASUREMENT AND MODIFICATION

道德脱离——衡量和修正

• 批准号: 6536295
• 负责人: ALFRED L MCALISTER
• 金额: $ 28.97万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-21 至 2004-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6536295
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; human subject; juvenile delinquency; military personnel; model design /development; morals; parent offspring interaction; peer group; psychological models; rape; secondary schools; urban area; violence

Moral disengagement is the process through which people can inflict suffering on others with a clear conscience. Numerous studies have validated this concept and recent research has shown that moral disengagement can be measured and that these measures can predict youth violence and delinquency. Pilot studies have shown that peer modeling and education can reduce moral disengagement and intolerance and that those reductions may prevent intergroup aggression and increase opposition to military violence. Based upon these preliminary studies, the investigators will develop and then qualitatively and quantitatively pretest a comprehensive set of instruments to measure the moral disengagement processes that influence seven individual and collective forms of violence among diverse groups of urban youth (high school students ages 14-15 in Houston, Texas). School- and media community-based instruction and education materials will also be developed to provide peer modeling and education promoting moral engagement (ie, resistance to moral disengagement). Then two, successive randomized nine-month school- community-level experiments will be conducted with two treatment and two comparison schools and approximately 3,000 research participants. This experiment will determine whether the instruction and education decreased moral disengagement and whether those reductions resulted in reduced rates of reported violent and delinquent behavior and behavioral intentions and in lower levels of reported victimization by violence in various forms.

道德脱离是一个过程，通过这个过程，人们可以问心无愧地给他人造成痛苦。许多研究证实了这一概念，最近的研究表明，道德脱离是可以衡量的，这些措施可以预测青年暴力和犯罪。试点研究表明，同侪示范和教育可以减少道德脱离和不容忍，这些减少可以防止群体间的侵略和增加对军事暴力的反对。根据这些初步研究，调查人员将开发，然后定性和定量地预先测试一套全面的工具，以衡量道德脱离过程，影响不同群体的城市青年（高中学生年龄14-15岁在休斯敦，得克萨斯州）之间的七种个人和集体形式的暴力。学校和媒体社区为基础的教学和教育材料也将开发，以提供同侪示范和教育，促进道德参与（即，抵制道德脱离）。然后，将在两所治疗学校和两所比较学校以及大约3，000名研究参与者中进行连续两次为期九个月的学校-社区一级的随机实验。这个实验将确定指导和教育是否减少了道德脱离，以及这些减少是否导致报告的暴力和犯罪行为和行为意图的比率降低，以及报告的各种形式的暴力受害水平降低。