Understanding interpersonal guilt : Associations with attachment, altruism, and personality pathology

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The aim of this article is to empirically investigate the relationships among interpersonal guilt, as conceived within control-mastery theory (CMT), and attachment, altruism, and personality pathology in an English-speaking sample. An online sample of 393 participants was recruited to complete the Interpersonal Guilt Rating Scale self-report version-15 (IGRS-15s), together with other empirically validated measures for the assessment of attachment, altruism, and personality pathology. On the basis of previous studies conducted in Italian-speaking samples, we hypothesized that survivor guilt, separation/disloyalty guilt, and omnipotent responsibility guilt would be associated with attachment anxiety and avoidance, altruism, and personality pathology; self-hate was hypothesized to be associated only with attachment anxiety and avoidance and personality pathology. Analyses examined bivariate associations as well as the network of partial correlations among variables. The results largely confirmed hypothesized associations, with self-hate evincing the strongest unique association with personality dysfunction. Findings provide a basis for further research regarding interpersonal guilt and personality and relational functioning, with potential implications for clinical conceptualizations of the role of guilt in psychopathology.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:63

Enthalten in:

Scandinavian journal of psychology - 63(2022), 6 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 573-580

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Leonardi, Jessica [VerfasserIn]
Gazzillo, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Gorman, Bernard S [VerfasserIn]
Kealy, David [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Altruism
Attachment
Control-mastery theory
Guilt
Journal Article
Personality pathology

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Date Completed 03.11.2022

Date Revised 03.11.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/sjop.12854

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM342996517