RT Article
T1 How robust is the moderating effect of extremist beliefs on the relationship between self-control and violent extremism?
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 63
IS 8
SP 1000
OP 1016
A1 Pauwels, Lieven 1974-
A2 Svensson, Robert
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1577517881
AB The present research note studies the interaction between the ability to exercise self-control and extremist moral beliefs with regard to the explanation of violent extremism. Although some evidence exists for the interaction between moral beliefs and self-control in the explanation of adolescent offending, no previous study has studied this interaction effect in a survey of young adults and with regard to politically or religiously motivated violence. This study therefore extends the existing literature by testing a key proposition of Situational Action Theory. We use a large-scale web survey of young adults in Belgium. The results support the hypothesis that the effect of the ability to exercise self-control is conditional upon one’s extremist beliefs. The results are stable across extremism-specific measures of extremist beliefs.
K1 Situational Action Theory
K1 Violent extremis
K1 Self-control
K1 Extremist belief
K1 Interaction
K1 Extremistische Gewalt
K1 Religiös motivierte Gewalt
K1 Studie
DO 10.1177/0011128716687757