Do Perceptual and Emotional Biases Mediate the Relationship Between Everyday Sadism and Antisocial Behavioural Outcomes?
(2018) PSYP01 20181Department of Psychology
- Abstract
- This study explores mediating factors in the relationship between trait everyday
sadism and aggressive behavioural styles. This study’s purpose was to uncover the
psychological processes underlying this ‘trait-behaviour’ relationship by examining two of these potential mediators; hostile perceptions and biases in emotionality. The study used a mixture of standard personality questionnaires and novel hypothetical-situational measures to assess type and level of aggressive responding in more realistic social situations. Correlational analysis and hierarchical multiple regression replicated the known everyday sadism-aggressive responding relationship, and found that hostile perceptual biases acted as a partial mediator of this relationship.... (More) - This study explores mediating factors in the relationship between trait everyday
sadism and aggressive behavioural styles. This study’s purpose was to uncover the
psychological processes underlying this ‘trait-behaviour’ relationship by examining two of these potential mediators; hostile perceptions and biases in emotionality. The study used a mixture of standard personality questionnaires and novel hypothetical-situational measures to assess type and level of aggressive responding in more realistic social situations. Correlational analysis and hierarchical multiple regression replicated the known everyday sadism-aggressive responding relationship, and found that hostile perceptual biases acted as a partial mediator of this relationship. Emotional expressivity was not found to be a significant mediator but was discovered as a new correlate to everyday sadism. Implications of these results on competing theories of everyday sadism, future directions for study, and practical applicability in aggression-reduction are discussed. (Less)
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- author
- Odonnell, Alice Kathryn LU
- supervisor
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- Eva Hoff LU
- Magnus Lindén LU
- organization
- course
- PSYP01 20181
- year
- 2018
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Everyday sadism, antisocial behaviour, dark traits, perceptual bias, emotion, aggression
- language
- English
- id
- 8954993
- date added to LUP
- 2019-02-06 09:13:47
- date last changed
- 2019-02-06 09:13:47
@misc{8954993, abstract = {{This study explores mediating factors in the relationship between trait everyday sadism and aggressive behavioural styles. This study’s purpose was to uncover the psychological processes underlying this ‘trait-behaviour’ relationship by examining two of these potential mediators; hostile perceptions and biases in emotionality. The study used a mixture of standard personality questionnaires and novel hypothetical-situational measures to assess type and level of aggressive responding in more realistic social situations. Correlational analysis and hierarchical multiple regression replicated the known everyday sadism-aggressive responding relationship, and found that hostile perceptual biases acted as a partial mediator of this relationship. Emotional expressivity was not found to be a significant mediator but was discovered as a new correlate to everyday sadism. Implications of these results on competing theories of everyday sadism, future directions for study, and practical applicability in aggression-reduction are discussed.}}, author = {{Odonnell, Alice Kathryn}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Do Perceptual and Emotional Biases Mediate the Relationship Between Everyday Sadism and Antisocial Behavioural Outcomes?}}, year = {{2018}}, }