Motivaciones prosociales y desconexión moral en adolescentes desvinculados de grupos armados ilegales

The articles aims to describe the main prosocial motivations and cognitive mechanisms of moral disconnection, and to analyze the relationship between the two constructs in adolescents separated from illegal armed groups, located in the form of a substitute home Tutor of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), in Manizales, Colombia. It is a quantitative research, nonexperimental cross-sectional design; descriptive-correlational scope study. A non-probabilistic sample composed of 35 adolescents was used. The instruments used were Revised Prosocial Trends Scale (PTM-R) and the Moral Disconnection Mechanisms Questionnaire (MMDS). As results it was determined that the prosocial trends with the highest average value were complacency and emergence. The most commonly used mechanisms of moral disconnection were attribution of guilt, moral justification and distortion of consequences. No significant differences were found between men and women. It was found significant correlations, of a negative sign, between the prosocial tendencies of complacency and altruism and the moral disconnection. Displacement of responsibility decreases by 34 % the likelihood that adolescents will engage in prosocial behaviour. Dehumanization of the victim decreases the probability by 45 % of prosocial behaviors oriented to complacency or obedience and, by 61 % the probability of prosocial behaviors with altruistic motivation.