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Abstract: This article presents a study aimed at testing the relations between specific schemata of the social world (pro-aggressive normative beliefs about aggression in everyday life, social Darwinism, and political cynicism) and dispositional aggression on the one hand, and the level of approval of aggression in politics, on the other hand. On the basis of data collected using face-to-face interviews, conducted on a representative random sample of adult Poles (n = 971), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was performed. The SEM analyses showed the direct effect of dispositional aggression on the outcome variable (acceptance of aggression in politics) which disappeared when specific schemata of the social world were added to the model. Pro-aggressive normative beliefs turned out to be the most influential mediator of the relation between dispositional aggression and outcome variable. The impact of social Darwinism was smaller, and political cynicism seemed to be weakest (but significant). |
