An extention of the school moral atmosphere construct, and its association with aggressive behaviours in secondary school |
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| Authors: | Tiziana Mancini Laura Fruggeri Chiara Panari |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Parma, Borgo Carissimi, 10, 43100, Parma, Italy
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| Abstract: | The first aim of this research is to introduce and to validate the new concept of School Normative Context, that revisits
the concept of School Moral Atmosphere studied by Brugman and his colleagues through the SMAQ (1999) and validated also in
the Italian context (Mancini & Fruggeri, 2005). The School Normative Context entails two new aspects: The first one concerns
the interactive dimension of each specific school context and the second one concerns the perception of responsibility (internal
vs, external) in the implementation of the norm. The second aim is to study the relation among adolescents perception of School
Normative Context, adolescents’ orientation towards social rules and their aggressive behaviours against classmates at school.
268 students (mean age 17,01) attending three Italian high schools of three different educational levels (Lyceum, technical
and professional) participated in this research. They filled a questionnaire composed of three parts: School Normative Context
Questionnaire (SNC), Normative Orientation Scale (NOS) and Aggression Scale (Orpinas, Frankowski, 2001). School Normative
Context has shown an acceptable degree of conceptual and predictive validity. The research has shown that the School Normative
Context has an influence on the aggressive behaviours against classmates. Furthermore, it is a mediating factor between the
adolescents’ orientation towards social norms and their aggressive behaviours at school. |
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