Development of attitudes and behavior towards authorities and laws: Latent Transitions Analysis

• Grant number: 19/09360-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: July 01, 2019
• End date: June 30, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Social Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Marcos César Alvarez
• Grantee: André Vilela Komatsu
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/07923-7 - Center of the Study of Violence - NEV/USP, AP.CEPID
• Associated scholarship(s): 22/07075-5 - The role of objective neighborhood characteristics for the belief in a just world among adolescents, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

This research project intends to apply the Latent Transitions Analysis (LTA) to the Legal Socialization study database to identify how experiences with parents, teachers, peers, police and victimization affect, over time, attitudes and behavior towards authorities and laws. The LTA identifies, in probabilistic terms, the prevalence of certain characteristics within the sample (for example, favorable or unfavorable to the law) and estimates the probability of changing these characteristics over time based on explanatory variables such as experience with the police or victimization. Thus, the analysis allows to describe the sample considering the development over time, as well as to estimate measures of associations between the possible explanatory variables and the characteristics/variables of interest as the attitudes and the behaviors before the authorities and the laws.