La influencia del desarrollo moral de los adolescentes en su comportamiento antisocial autorreportado: El caso de las adolescentes (The Influence of Moral Reasoning of Adolescents in Their Self-Reported Antisocial Behaviour: The Case of Girls)

• Main Authors: María José Bernuz Beneitez, María A. González-Álvarez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2020-04-01
• Series: Oñati Socio-Legal Series
• Subjects: desarrollo moral; comportamiento antisocial; delincuencia autorreportada; moral development; antisocial behavior; self-reported delinquency
• Online Access: http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1100/1246

El objetivo del presente art&iacute;culo es analizar la relaci&oacute;n entre el desarrollo moral de los adolescentes y sus comportamientos delictivos (autorreportados) distinguiendo seg&uacute;n si son conductas contra la propiedad, las personas, el orden, o la salud p&uacute;blica. Se utilizan datos de una encuesta realizada en 2012 en Arag&oacute;n a 1.762 adolescentes entre 14 y 18 a&ntilde;os. El estudio emplea el an&aacute;lisis de componentes principales para identificar la estructura interna de los datos de algunas de las distintas dimensiones del razonamiento moral de los adolescentes. El an&aacute;lisis de regresi&oacute;n m&uacute;ltiple muestra que una mayor penalizaci&oacute;n de conductas antisociales, tener a los adultos como figura de referencia y ser chica reducen la probabilidad de cometer un delito. Mientras que la (mayor) edad, la legitimaci&oacute;n de la violencia y la sumisi&oacute;n y optar por mecanismos de prevenci&oacute;n social incrementan significativamente el riesgo de delinquir.<br /><br /> The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between moral development of adolescents and their antisocial behavior (self-reported) differentiating on the basis of the nature of the conduct, if it is against property, against people, against the order, or against public health. The data used comes from a survey conducted in 2012 in Aragon to 1,762 adolescents between 14 and 18 years of age. Principal component analysis is used to identify the internal structure of the data for the different dimensions of moral reasoning of adolescents (reasoning about the rightfulness of anti-social behaviors, tolerance towards violence, opinion about prevention mechanisms, and their figures of reference). The regression analysis shows that higher penalty of antisocial behavior, having adults as leading figures and being a girl reduce the probability of committing a crime. On the contrary, (higher) age, tolerance towards violence and submission, and a greater preference for social prevention mechanisms significantly increase the risk of being an offender.<br /><br /> <strong>Available from: </strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1081" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1081</a>