Examining the relationships between sub-clinical psychopathic traits with shame, guilt and externalisation response tendencies to everyday transgressions
Autor: | Catherine E. Prado, Matt S Treeby, Simon F. Crowe |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Zdroj: | The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology. 27:569-585 |
ISSN: | 1478-9957 1478-9949 |
DOI: | 10.1080/14789949.2016.1167933 |
Popis: | Although many theories of psychopathy include reference to some form of emotional deficit, surprisingly little research has examined the relationships between psychopathic traits and important self-conscious moral emotions such as shame and guilt. The present study sought to examine these relationships in a sub-clinical sample, taking into account the important theoretical differences between the two emotions. Participants (N = 739) completed a measure of psychopathic traits and a measure of self-conscious affect style. Both primary and secondary psychopathic traits were found to be inversely related to guilt-proneness; however, the effect size was greater for primary psychopathic traits. Primary psychopathic traits were unrelated to shame-proneness, while secondary psychopathic traits were positively related to shame-proneness. Both primary and secondary traits were positively related to externalisation; however the effect size was greater for primary over secondary traits. The findings provide s... |
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