Objectives

The goal of the study is to address several voids in the literature investigating Situational Action Theory (SAT) by: (1) testing the role of parenting as a precursor to individual moral rules and self-control; (2) investigating the interplay between personal moral rules, self-control, and rules of school settings; and (3) exploring the generalizability of these theoretical links across western and nonwestern country clusters.

Methods

Using unique data from the third iteration of the International Self-Reported Delinquency Survey (ISRD-3) of 28 different countries, this investigation puts SAT to the test in school settings by estimating a series of two-level mixed effect negative binomial linear regression models to assess the effects of SAT-relevant individual and school-level predictors on offending.

Results

The results suggest a moderately strong performance of SAT in western and nonwestern countries. Specifically, parenting acts as a partial precursor to individual moral rules and self-control. Furthermore, some SAT-relevant predictors are equally potent as crime predictors across western and nonwestern countries. However, the effects of moral rules significantly differ across western and nonwestern country clusters. Moral rules also appear to interact significantly with self-control and a number of contextual factors in their effects on delinquency.

Conclusions

The results of the study point to the cultural generalizability of SAT but warrant further investigation as some differences in the findings across clusters exist.

中文翻译：

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道德规则、自我控制和学校环境：来自 28 个国家的情境行动理论的补充证据

目标

该研究的目标是通过以下方式解决研究情境行动理论 (SAT) 的文献中的几个空白：(1) 测试养育子女作为个人道德规则和自我控制的先导的作用；(2) 调查个人道德规则、自我控制和学校环境规则之间的相互作用；(3) 探索这些理论联系在西方和非西方国家集群之间的普遍性。

方法

该调查使用来自 28 个不同国家的国际自我报告犯罪调查 (ISRD-3) 第三次迭代的独特数据，通过估计一系列两级混合效应负二项式线性回归模型，在学校环境中测试 SAT评估与 SAT 相关的个人和学校层面的预测因素对犯罪的影响。

结果

结果表明 SAT 在西方和非西方国家的表现中等。具体来说，养育子女是个人道德规则和自我控制的部分先导。此外，一些与 SAT 相关的预测指标与西方和非西方国家的犯罪预测指标同样有效。然而，道德规则的影响在西方和非西方国家集群之间存在显着差异。道德规则似乎也与自我控制和许多对犯罪的影响的背景因素显着相互作用。

结论

研究结果表明 SAT 的文化普遍性，但值得进一步调查，因为跨集群的发现存在一些差异。