Open AccessCross‐cultural Protective Effects of Neighborhood Collective Efficacy on Antisocial Behaviors: Mediating Role of Social Information Processing
Author(s) -
Yoshizawa Hiroyuki,
Yoshida Toshikazu,
Park HyunJung,
Nakajima Makoto,
Ozeki Miki,
Harada Chika
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
japanese psychological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5884
pISSN - 0021-5368
DOI - 10.1111/jpr.12266
Subject(s) - generality , mediation , collective efficacy , psychology , social information processing , structural equation modeling , information processing , social psychology , mechanism (biology) , social influence , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , cognition , sociology , computer science , social science , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience , machine learning , psychotherapist
Abstract Studies on the prevention of antisocial behavior in neighborhoods through efficacious social control have focused on collective efficacy as the theoretical mechanism by which children at the community level can be successfully socialized to develop an aversion to antisocial behaviors. We hypothesized that the effect of collective efficacy within communities on antisocial behaviors could be mediated by social‐information‐processing biases and tested the generality of these mediation effects for undergraduates ( N = 929) in Japan, China, South Korea, and the United States, countries with widely varying cultures and political systems. Structural equation modeling revealed that the effects of collective efficacy on antisocial behaviors were perfectly mediated by social‐information‐processing biases. Findings also confirmed the generality of these mediational effects in all four countries investigated.