Maritally Aggressive Men: Angry, Egocentric, Impulsive, and/or Biased

Schweinle, William; Ickes, William; Rollings, Kathryn H.; Jacquot, Colette

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“…This suggests that it may be difficult for such individuals to assume or understand their partner’s perspective, resulting in violence if, for example, the partner is unwilling to share and/or agree with the perpetrator’s point of view. This finding and the explanation offered are in keeping with Schweinle et al (2010) language analysis of maritally aggressive men. More specifically, the researchers demonstrated that violent husbands use egocentric words (such as first-person pronouns) in describing their marriages.…”

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Psychopathic Personality Traits Scale (PPTS): Construct Validity of the Instrument in a Sample of U.S. Prisoners

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The Psychopathic Personality Traits Scale (PPTS; Boduszek et al., 2016) is a personality-based psychopathy assessment tool consisting of four subscales: affective responsiveness, cognitive responsiveness, interpersonal manipulation, and egocentricity. Although the measure offers a promising alternative to other, more behaviorally weighted scales, to date the factor structure of the PPTS and differential predictive validity of its dimensions has only been tested in one study. Consequently, the objective of the present research was to assess construct validity, factor structure, and composite reliability of the PPTS within a sample of U.S. male and female incarcerated offenders (N = 772). Another goal was to test the predictive efficiency of the PPTS dimensions for different types of offences (serial killing, homicide, sex crimes, weapon-related crimes, domestic violence, white-collar crimes, property crimes, drug-related crimes), recidivism (i.e., number of incarcerations), time spent in prison, and gender. Dimensionality and construct validity of the PPTS was investigated using traditional CFA techniques, confirmatory bifactor analysis, and multitrait-multimethod modelling (MTMM). Seven alternative models of the PPTS were estimated in Mplus using WLSMV estimator. An MTMM model with four grouping factors (affective responsiveness, cognitive responsiveness, interpersonal manipulation, and egocentricity) while controlling for two method factors (knowledge/skills and attitudes/beliefs) offered the best representation of the data. Good composite reliability and differential predictive validity was reported. The PPTS can be reliably used among prisoners from the United States.

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Psychopathic Personality Traits Scale (PPTS): Construct Validity of the Instrument in a Sample of U.S. Prisoners

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“…Boals and Klein (2005) found that people used more first-person singular pronouns when writing about their relationship postbreakup compared to when they wrote about it about prebreakup. Schweinle, Ickes, Rollings, and Jacquot (2010) reported a positive association between both first-person singular and plural pronoun use with men’s aggressive behavior toward their wives; they suggested this may be indicative of husbands’ attempts to manipulate their wives. Finally, Robbins et al (2013) found that own and partner You -use was related to increased depression.…”

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What a Difference a Pronoun Makes

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Schooler

Smith

2015

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

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Purpose: We investigate the role of pronoun use in people’s perceptions of relationship interaction quality, especially when partners experience worry. Method: Couples (N = 115) rated their anxiety and interaction quality and participated in a 15-minute problem-solving discussion. Results: Me-focus by actors and You-focus by actors and partners reliably correlated with perceived interaction quality. As well, a person’s own, but not his or her partner’s, worry moderated the association between pronoun use and perceived interaction quality. Pronoun use (actor You- and partner Me-focus) and perceived interaction quality were especially strongly associated for people with relatively lower levels of worry. A principal component analyses uncovered two underlying factors for pronouns: self-focus and other-focus. Actor–partner analyses using underlying factors corroborated the results for individual pronouns. Discussion: These results support previous findings that specific pronouns are related to worse outcomes, and this association may be a function of how worried partners are. Worry may contribute to interpersonal difficulties by overriding otherwise salient interpersonal cues.

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“…For this reason, they included in their study personality measures of aggression/hostility, impulsivity, and affect intensity for anger and frustration (AIAF) as well. They were able to use existing measures of anger/hostility (Buss and Perry, 1992), impulsivity (Barratt, 1985;Schweinle et al, 2010), and adherence to CM (Tooke and Ickes, 1988) in their research, but had to develop their own original measures of TSED and AIAF [2]. Finally, because admitting to rude behavior is a socially undesirable thing to do, they also included in their study a brief measure of social desirability as a final possible predictor or covariate.…”

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More f#!%ing rudeness: reliable personality predictors of verbal rudeness and other ugly confrontational behaviors

Park

Ickes

Robinson

2014

Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research

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Purpose – The purpose of this research is to (1) to identify personality variables that reliably predict verbal rudeness ( i.e by replicating previous findings) and (2) to investigate what personality variables predict more general ugly confrontational behaviors. Design/methodology/approach – In Study 1, the authors used an online survey to collect information regarding individual differences in social desirability, self-esteem, narcissism, blirtatiousness, behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation, conventional morality (CM), thin-skinned ego defensiveness (TSED), affect intensity for anger and frustration (AIAF), and verbal rudeness. In Study 2, the authors used a similar online survey to collect the same information, but extended the survey questionnaire to include measures of entitlement, psychopathology, Machiavellianism, and a retrospective checklist of ugly confrontational behaviors. Findings – In Study 1, regression analyses revealed that CM, behavioral inhibition, and behavioral activation reward responsiveness were significant negative predictors of rudeness. AIAF, TSED and behavioral activation drive were significant positive predictors of rudeness. In Study 2, regression analyses revealed that CM was again a significant negative predictor of rudeness. AIAF, and narcissism were significant positive predictors of rudeness. CM also negatively predicted ugly confrontational behaviors, whereas AIAF, blirtatiousness, and Machiavellianism were positive predictors. Originality/value – Although several measures of aggression exist, the current studies of rudeness and ugly confrontational behavior specifically assess tendencies to abuse strangers. These studies begin to establish a personality profile of the type of person that might abuse strangers.

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Maritally Aggressive Men: Angry, Egocentric, Impulsive, and/or Biased

Cited by 12 publications

References 62 publications

Psychopathic Personality Traits Scale (PPTS): Construct Validity of the Instrument in a Sample of U.S. Prisoners

Psychopathic Personality Traits Scale (PPTS): Construct Validity of the Instrument in a Sample of U.S. Prisoners

What a Difference a Pronoun Makes

More f#!%ing rudeness: reliable personality predictors of verbal rudeness and other ugly confrontational behaviors

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