TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Morality and intimate partner violence: do men in court-mandated psychological treatment hold a sacred moral vision of the world and themselves?
JO  - Violence and victims
A1  - Vecina, María L.
A1  - Chacón, José C.
SP  - 510
EP  - 522
VL  - 31
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-6708
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-14-00153
ID  - ref1
ER  -