THE ROLE OF MORAL FOUNDATIONS IN EXCUSING VERBAL AGGRESSION IN FORMAL RELATIONSHIPS INVOLVING POWER ASYMMETRY

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2023-7

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Erdoğan, Çağdan

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This dissertation examines the moral foundations of excusing aggression, assuming that the diversity in the cases of aggression that are excused may be the manifestation of the diversity in people’s subjective morality. Since there are various angles to examine excusing aggression along with morality, the scope of this dissertation is limited only to excusing verbal aggression in formal relationships involving power asymmetry. For this reason, two scales have been developed primarily to measure this specific type of aggression. Accordingly, the first study examined the relationship between moral foundations and excusing verbal aggression when the perpetrator has more social power, and indicated that both direct and indirect effects of the authority moral foundation on excusing verbal aggression are significant. The second study examined the relationship between moral foundations and excusing verbal aggression when the perpetrator has less social power, and indicated that the direct effect of the liberty moral foundation on excusing verbal aggression was significant whereas the indirect effect of the liberty moral foundation was not. Other moral foundations were also tested within the models and their validity in Turkey was discussed.

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Excusing Aggression, Morality, Power Asymmetry, Identification, Moral Foundations Theory

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/104762

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis