ISSN:
1069-3971
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Cross-cultural research : the journal of comparative social science : official journal of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research
Publ. der Quelle:
Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.] : Sage Periodicals Press
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 50, No. 2 (2016), p. 123-153
DDC:
150
Abstract:
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships between family and classroom environments and the development of particular individual characteristics, including level of empathy, attitude to institutional authority, and perceived social reputation, and the role these characteristics may in turn play in aggressive behavior. These factors and associations were analyzed by gender and in two different Latin contexts, Spain and Mexico, from a cross-cultural perspective. Participants in the study were 1,319 Spanish adolescents and 1,494 Mexican adolescents drawn from secondary schools. Structural equation models were calculated to test mediational effects among variables. Results obtained indicated, in general terms, that the level of empathy, the social reputation, and the attitude to authority partly mediated the relationship between the environment perceived by boys and girls at home and school, and their aggressive behavior, in both samples. Other similarities and differences between genders and samples were also found and are discussed. [web URL: http://ccr.sagepub.com/content/50/2/123.abstract]
DOI:
10.1177/1069397115625637
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1776408009
