Justification of aggression in several Asian and European Countries with different religious and cultural background

This paper reviews the results of two decades of research on moral approval of aggressive acts conducted in several countries with different religious and cultural backgrounds. A nationally-adapted version of the Lagerspetz and Westman questionnaire was administered to university students in Finland...

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Autor: Ramirez, J. Martin
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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Emoción y agresividad
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spelling Justification of aggression in several Asian and European Countries with different religious and cultural backgroundRamirez, J. MartinAggressive actsAggressionEmoción y agresividad6106.03 EmociónThis paper reviews the results of two decades of research on moral approval of aggressive acts conducted in several countries with different religious and cultural backgrounds. A nationally-adapted version of the Lagerspetz and Westman questionnaire was administered to university students in Finland, Poland, Spain, Japan, Iran and India. Respondents had to indicate levels of justification of several aggressive acts of different quality and intensity in the context of different social justifications. Although slight method variations preclude the possibility of direct comparison, the pattern of effects in the different countries leads to interesting conclusions. In all countries: more drastic forms of aggression (e.g., killing, torture) are less accepted than non-dangerous forms of such behavior (e.g., hindering, being ironic); and aggressive acts that are socially justified (in terms of protection of self or other) are clearly more accepted than ones with no such justification (problems of communication). However, there are also some striking differences among the samples studied. Thus, patterns of moral approval of various kinds of aggressive acts are only to some extent common to most cultures, while there are some culturally bound differences in these attitudes.International Society for the Study of Behavioral DevelopmentUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20072007-01-0120072007-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/52982reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/529822026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Justification of aggression in several Asian and European Countries with different religious and cultural background
title Justification of aggression in several Asian and European Countries with different religious and cultural background
spellingShingle Justification of aggression in several Asian and European Countries with different religious and cultural background
Ramirez, J. Martin
Aggressive acts
Aggression
Emoción y agresividad
6106.03 Emoción
title_short Justification of aggression in several Asian and European Countries with different religious and cultural background
title_full Justification of aggression in several Asian and European Countries with different religious and cultural background
title_fullStr Justification of aggression in several Asian and European Countries with different religious and cultural background
title_full_unstemmed Justification of aggression in several Asian and European Countries with different religious and cultural background
title_sort Justification of aggression in several Asian and European Countries with different religious and cultural background
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ramirez, J. Martin
author Ramirez, J. Martin
author_facet Ramirez, J. Martin
author_role author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Aggressive acts
Aggression
Emoción y agresividad
6106.03 Emoción
topic Aggressive acts
Aggression
Emoción y agresividad
6106.03 Emoción
description This paper reviews the results of two decades of research on moral approval of aggressive acts conducted in several countries with different religious and cultural backgrounds. A nationally-adapted version of the Lagerspetz and Westman questionnaire was administered to university students in Finland, Poland, Spain, Japan, Iran and India. Respondents had to indicate levels of justification of several aggressive acts of different quality and intensity in the context of different social justifications. Although slight method variations preclude the possibility of direct comparison, the pattern of effects in the different countries leads to interesting conclusions. In all countries: more drastic forms of aggression (e.g., killing, torture) are less accepted than non-dangerous forms of such behavior (e.g., hindering, being ironic); and aggressive acts that are socially justified (in terms of protection of self or other) are clearly more accepted than ones with no such justification (problems of communication). However, there are also some striking differences among the samples studied. Thus, patterns of moral approval of various kinds of aggressive acts are only to some extent common to most cultures, while there are some culturally bound differences in these attitudes.
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