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Causal and moral responsibility: Antecedents and consequences of group-based guilt.
- Source :
- European Journal of Social Psychology; Dec2011, Vol. 41 Issue 7, p825-839, 15p, 6 Diagrams, 5 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- In six studies ( N = 1045) conducted in three European countries, we demonstrate distinctions between causal responsibility, group-based guilt, and moral responsibility. We propose that causal responsibility is an antecedent of group-based guilt linking the ingroup to previous transgressions against the victim group. In contrast, moral responsibility is a consequence of group-based guilt and is conceptualized as a sociomoral norm to respond to the consequences of the ingroup's transgressions and the current needs of the victim group. As such, moral responsibility can be stimulated by group-based guilt and directly predicts individual action intentions. Studies 1 and 2 focus on the conceptual distinctions among the three constructs. Study 3 tests the indirect effect of causal responsibility on moral responsibility via group-based guilt. The remaining studies explore the mediating role of moral responsibility in associations between group-based guilt and compensatory action tendencies, that is, financial compensation (study 4), approach and avoidance tendencies (study 5) and public apology (study 6). Together these studies show that causal and moral responsibility are psychologically distinct concepts from group-based guilt and that moral responsibility plays an important role in shaping the effects of group-based guilt on behavioral intentions. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANALYSIS of variance
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
ATTRIBUTION (Social psychology)
CHI-squared test
COLLEGE students
CONFLICT (Psychology)
STATISTICAL correlation
FACTOR analysis
GOODNESS-of-fit tests
GROUP identity
GUILT (Psychology)
INTENTION
PATH analysis (Statistics)
QUESTIONNAIRES
REGRESSION analysis
RESEARCH funding
RESPONSIBILITY
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
SUFFERING
VICTIM psychology
GROUP process
RESEARCH methodology evaluation
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00462772
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Journal of Social Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 67365768
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.826