Mediating the Mediator

The Indirect Effect of Short-Term Hostility on the Past Reactive Criminal Thinking-Future Reactive Criminal Thinking Relationship

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2153296
AutoresGlenn D Walters (0000-0002-7219-1542, Kutztown University, Kutztown, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen41
Número9
Páginas1157-1175
Fecha de publicación2020-09-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDeviant Behavior (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01639625.2019.1597322
OpenAlexW2937939803
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas56

The current study sought to determine whether short-term hostility mediated reactive criminal thinking (RCT) just as RCT mediates the past crime‒future crime relationship. Using the first four waves of data from the Pathways to Desistance study, a series of three causal mediation analyses were performed on all 1,354 (1,170 males, 184 females) members of the Pathways study. Findings from the first analysis revealed that while short-term hostility mediated the relationship between past and future RCT, it did not mediate the past proactive criminal thinking (PCT)‒future PCT relationship. The outcome of the second analysis revealed that the effect was specific to hostility in that an alternate affective state (depression) had no mediating effect on the past‒future RCT relationship. A third analysis generated support for a mediation-within-mediation effect whereby RCT mediated crime continuity and was, in turn, mediated by short-term hostility in a five-wave serial multiple mediation model

Developmental psychology · Hostility · Mediation · Mediator · Political science · Randomized controlled trial · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Medicine · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology