{"id":1391,"date":"2018-04-19T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T09:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2018-06-06T12:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T11:28:21","slug":"social-values-of-honour-and-masculinity-fuel-contact-with-mafia-type-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2018\/04\/19\/social-values-of-honour-and-masculinity-fuel-contact-with-mafia-type-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Social values of honour and masculinity fuel contact with mafia-type groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New research by Kent Psychologist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/travaglinog\/\">Dr Giovanni Travaglino<\/a>\u00a0and Dr Libby Drury, of\u00a0Birkbeck, University of London, has indicated that masculine honour-related values among young Italian men strongly indicates engagement with the mafia-type groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/travaglinog\/\">Dr Travaglino<\/a> studied a sample of Southern Italian adolescents over a period of five months and\u00a0found that gravitation towards contact with criminal organisation associates was higher among those who adhered highly to masculine honour values.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the research demonstrated that contact with such criminal organisations is linked to a romanticised view of the groups.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/17756\/social-values-of-masculinity-and-honour-fuel-contact-with-mafia-type-groups\">Kent&#8217;s News Centre page.\u00a0<\/a>The study, entitled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1002\/ejsp.2389\">Connected Guys: Endorsement of Masculine Honour Predicts More Frequent Contact with Members of Criminal Organisations<\/a>, is published in the <em>European Journal of Social Psychology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research by Kent Psychologist\u00a0Dr Giovanni Travaglino\u00a0and Dr Libby Drury, of\u00a0Birkbeck, University of London, has indicated that masculine honour-related values among young Italian men strongly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2018\/04\/19\/social-values-of-honour-and-masculinity-fuel-contact-with-mafia-type-groups\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55574,"featured_media":1447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}