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Assessing the role of aggression, empathy, and self-serving cognitive distortions in trait emotional manipulation
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posted on 2023-05-17, 17:41 authored by Rachel Grieve, Panebianco, LThis study extended the examination of the predictors of emotional manipulation. Participants (N = 243) completed measures of trait emotional manipulation, emotional intelligence, social skills, psychopathy, aggression, empathy, and self-serving cognitive distortions in a cross-sectional correlational design. For males, higher levels of emotional intelligence, social information processing, indirect aggression, and self-serving cognitive distortions significantly predicted emotional manipulation. For females, being younger, higher levels of emotional intelligence, indirect aggression, primary psychopathic traits, and lower levels of social awareness significantly predicted emotional manipulation. However for females, emotional intelligence acted as a suppressor. These findings support previous indications that the mechanisms behind emotional manipulation differ as a function of gender. Future research could include ability, rather than trait measures of emotional manipulation, as well as the role of context (such as intimate relationships or workplace environments), thereby allowing additional examination of the nomological network of emotional manipulation.
History
Publication title
Australian Journal of PsychologyVolume
65Pagination
79-88ISSN
0004-9530Department/School
School of Psychological SciencesPublisher
Australian Psychological SocPlace of publication
1 Grattan Street, Carlton, Australia, Victoria, 3053Rights statement
Copyright 2012 The Australian Psychological SocietyRepository Status
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