Toward a social psychological profile of would-be rioters

✍ Scribed by Gordon W. Russell; Robert L. Arms

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 29 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0096-140X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2337(1998)24:3<219::aid-ab6>3.0.co;2-f

✦ Synopsis

Male ice hockey fans (N = 78) completed a battery of biographical, social, cognitive, and individual differences measures that had previously been administered piecemeal to spectators found in attendance at games. Participants' self-reported likelihood of joining in a crowd disturbance served as the dependent measure. The individual differences measures included physical aggression, anger, impulsivity, psychopathy, sensation seeking, and public self-consciousness. All but public self-consciousness was positively related to subjects' likelihood of escalating a disturbance. Participants' age, number of accompanying males, the false consensus effect, number and recency of fights, and attending in anticipation of watching player fights were also related to the dependent measure. A multiple regression analysis yielded a multiple R = .807, accounting for 65% of the variance. The time since the participant was last in a fight and liking to watch player fights emerged as significant predictors.