The Mechanism of Moral Disengagement on Adolescent Perpetrators of Fornication

Suryanto, Dessi Christanti, Muhammad G. B. A. Putra

2018

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to describe the mechanism of moral disengagement on adult perpetrators of fornication . This research is motivated by many cases of fornication by adolescents. Adolescents know that fornication is wrong but they do it anyway. It is interesting to know what is going on in their cognition. This case can be viewed from moral disengagement theory. The problem statement of this research is ”How are the mechanism of moral disengagement on adult perpetrators of fornication?” This study used an instrumental case study. This study was conducted in juvenile prison in Blitar East Java Indonesia. The study participants were adults aged between fourteen to eighteen years old, male and had been found guilty by the court. This study engaged five people. It employed in-depth interview. Data analysis was done by categorization and direct interpretation, correspondence and pattern, and naturalistic generalization. The results of this study showed that the forms of mechanism of moral disengagement possessed by adult perpetrators of fornication are moral justification, blame attribution, diffusion of responsibility, dehumanization, and distortion or minimizing the consequences. Of the five mechanism of moral disengagement, the ones widely used are diffusion of responsibility, attribution of blame, distortion of consequences and dehumanization.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Christanti D., Suryanto. and Putra M. (2018). The Mechanism of Moral Disengagement on Adolescent Perpetrators of Fornication.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS, ISBN 978-989-758-435-0, pages 494-504. DOI: 10.5220/0008591304940504

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icp-hesos18,
author={Dessi Christanti and Suryanto and Muhammad G. B. A. Putra},
title={The Mechanism of Moral Disengagement on Adolescent Perpetrators of Fornication},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,},
year={2018},
pages={494-504},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008591304940504},
isbn={978-989-758-435-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,
TI - The Mechanism of Moral Disengagement on Adolescent Perpetrators of Fornication
SN - 978-989-758-435-0
AU - Christanti D.
AU - Suryanto.
AU - Putra M.
PY - 2018
SP - 494
EP - 504
DO - 10.5220/0008591304940504