"In weapons we trust?" four-culture analysis of factors associated with weapon tolerance in young males
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Liverpool John Moores UniversityFlorida Institute of Technology
University of Massachusetts Lowell
University of Bedfordshire
Stockton University
Opole University
Jagiellonian University
St Vincent College
Western New England University
Fore School of ManagementRaksha Shakti UniversityVishwakarma UniversityPolish Academy of SciencesUniversity of LiverpoolUniversity of Manchester
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2025-03-20Subjects
weapon toleranceknife carrying
guns
aggressive masculinity
psychoticism
Subject Categories::C880 Social Psychology
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Addressing the under-researched issue of weapon tolerance, the paper examines factors behind male knife and gun tolerance across four different cultures, seeking to rank them in terms of predictive power and shed light on relations between them. To this end, four regression and structural equation modelling analyses were conducted using samples from the US (n = 189), India (n = 196), England (n = 107) and Poland (n = 375). Each sample of male participants indicated their standing on several dimensions (i.e., predictors) derived from theory and related research (i.e., Psychoticism, Need for Respect, Aggressive Masculinity, Belief in Social Mobility and Doubt in Authority). All four regression models were statistically significant. The knife tolerance predictors were: Aggressive Masculinity (positive) in the US, Poland and England, Belief in Social Mobility (negative) in the US and England, Need for Respect (positive) in India and Psychoticism (positive) in Poland. The gun tolerance predictors were: Psychoticism (positive) in the US, India and Poland, Aggressive Masculinity (positive) in the US, England and Poland, and Belief in in Social Mobility (negative) in the US, Belief in Social Mobility (positive) and Doubt in Authority (negative) in Poland. The Structural Equation Weapon Tolerance Model (WTM) suggested an indirect effect for the latent factor Perceived Social Ecological Constraints via its positive relation with the latent factor Saving Face, both knife and gun tolerance were predicted by Psychoticism.Citation
Palace M, May B, Shortland N, Brown W, Mcllroy D, Madan M, Bokszczanin A, Gurbisz D, Daly S, Hansen L, Tripathi R, Harjai D, Ingale S, Dussart O, Jiang W, Palle V (2025) '"In weapons we trust?" four-culture analysis of factors associated with weapon tolerance in young males', PLoS ONE, 20 (3), e0317182Publisher
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PLoS ONEPubMed ID
40112246PubMed Central ID
PMC11925465Type
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1932-6203EISSN
1932-6203Sponsors
This research has been supported by a grant from the Priority Research Area (Future Society: Behaviour in Crisis Lab- Flagship Project) under the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University (3700000 PLN; U1U/P02/NO/21.97).Scopus Count
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