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Assessing the role of aggression, empathy, and self-serving cognitive distortions in trait emotional manipulation
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Grieve, RM and Panebianco, L, Assessing the role of aggression, empathy, and self-serving cognitive distortions in trait emotional manipulation, Australian Journal of Psychology, 65, (2) pp. 79-88. ISSN 0004-9530 (2013) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2012 The Australian Psychological Society
DOI: doi:10.1111/j.1742-9536.2012.00059.x
Abstract
This 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.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | cognitive distortions; emotional intelligence; emotional manipulation; empathy; indirect aggression |
Research Division: | Psychology |
Research Group: | Social and personality psychology |
Research Field: | Personality and individual differences |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in psychology |
UTAS Author: | Grieve, RM (Dr Rachel Grieve) |
ID Code: | 84568 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 36 |
Deposited By: | Psychology |
Deposited On: | 2013-05-20 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-03 |
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