Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 3 · Licensed source edition
Mediating Role of Moral Disengagement Mechanisms in the Relationship Between Perceived Parental Warmth and Youth Violence
Originally published 2025-02-18 · Children
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/children12020246 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
How can a family acknowledge harm while keeping the conversation open?
The authors examine how parental warmth and moral disengagement relate to reported youth violence.
Who was studied?
2,124 adolescents attending schools in Spain
Age / stage: 13–17 years
Read with three questions
- How did the authors investigate how parental warmth and moral disengagement relate to reported youth violence?
- Whose report describes the parent, the child and the outcome, and where might those reports differ?
- How did the authors separate descriptions of moral disengagement from reported violent behavior?
Keep the limits in view
Adolescents’ accounts of warmth and aggression provide one perspective. The model does not demonstrate how a particular interaction produced later behavior.
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María J Navas-Martínez; Lourdes Contreras; M Carmen Cano-Lozano; Telma C Almeida; Ana Isabel Sani; Susana Monteiro; Jorge Cardoso (2025). Mediating Role of Moral Disengagement Mechanisms in the Relationship Between Perceived Parental Warmth and Youth Violence Children. https://doi.org/10.3390/children12020246
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