Vecina Jiménez, María LuisaChacón Gómez, José Carlos2025-12-182025-12-182016-01Vecina, M. L., & Chacón, J. C. (2016). Morality and intimate partner violence: Do men in court-mandated psychological treatment hold a sacred moral vision of the world and themselves? Violence and Victims, 31(3), 510–522. https://doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-14-001530886-670810.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-14-00153https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/129299This paper examines the characterization of men in a court-mandated treatment for violence against their partners as holding a sacred vision of the five moral foundations and of their own morality. This characterization is compatible with the assumption that a sacred moral world is easily threatened by reality and that may be associated to violent defensive actions. The results from latent class analyses reveal 1) a four-class distribution depending exclusively on the intensity with which all participants (violent and non-violent) tend to sacralize the actions proposed in the Moral Foundations Sacredness Scale and 2) a greater prevalence of the violent participants among the classes that are more prone to sacralize. They also show that they hold an inflated moral vision of themselves: They think they are much more moral than intelligent than others who have never been charged with criminal behavior (Muhammad Ali effect).engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/journal article1945-7073https://doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-14-0015327075260open accessSacrednessMoral foundationsMoral self-conceptMoral self-enhancementIntimate partner violencePsicología (Psicología)61 Psicología