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The Influence of Sociocultural Beliefs on Adolescents’ Moral and Tolerance Evaluations Toward Corruption
Author(s) -
Martínez Cristhian A.,
Posada Roberto
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12729
Subject(s) - sociocultural evolution , nepotism , language change , psychology , social psychology , baseline (sea) , developmental psychology , political science , law , politics , art , literature
In the present research, we examine how sociocultural beliefs facilitate more positive and tolerant evaluations toward corruption. Ninety‐six adolescents from 6th grade ( M = 11.9 years), 11th grade ( M = 16.6 years), and college ( M = 20.5 years), from Colombia—a country with high levels of corruption—evaluated how morally right and acceptable were bribery and nepotism across a baseline condition without sociocultural information, and three experimental conditions including sociocultural beliefs about illegality, institutional illegitimacy, and survival. Results suggest that compared to the baseline, the sociocultural beliefs in the three experimental conditions lead to more positive and tolerant evaluations, and less severity and more acceptability towards corruption in different degrees. Implications for moral reasoning about corruption are discussed.