PLS-PM models for analyzing the Legitimacy of Violence among teenagers

The purpose of this study is to analyze the concept of the Legitimacy of Violence among teenagers through a Partial Least Squares Path Modeling based on higher order construct modeling. The latent concept of Legitimacy of Violence is not present in literature; it was built ad hoc at a high level of abstraction, formed by two dimensions that until now have always been considered and analyzed separately: an aptitude for violence and ambivalent sexism. In order to analyse this concept, a Partial Least Square Path Modeling is proposed with the aim of studying how these dimensions formed a higher order latent concept.