@article{ref1,
title="Morality and intimate partner violence: do men in court-mandated psychological treatment hold a sacred moral vision of the world and themselves?",
journal="Violence and victims",
year="2016",
author="Vecina, María L. and Chacón, José C.",
volume="31",
number="3",
pages="510-522",
abstract="This article examines the characterization of men in a court-mandated treatment for violence against their partners as holding a sacred vision of the 5 moral foundations and of their own morality. This characterization is compatible with the assumption that a sacred moral world is easily threatened by reality and that may be associated to violent defensive actions. The results from latent class analyses reveal (a) a 4-class distribution depending exclusively on the intensity with which all participants (violent and nonviolent) tend to sacralize the actions proposed in the Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale and (b) a greater prevalence of the violent participants among the classes that are more prone to sacralize. They also show that they hold an inflated moral vision of themselves: They think they are much more moral than intelligent than others who have never been charged with criminal behavior (Muhammad Ali effect).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-6708",
doi="10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-14-00153",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-14-00153"
}