The Relation of Child Maltreatment to Shame and Guilt Among Adolescents: Psychological Routes to Depression and Delinquency

Stuewig, Jeffrey; McCloskey, Laura Ann

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“…Prior research with adolescents indicates that guilt is not associated with depression (e.g., Stuewig & McCloskey, 2005); the present results suggest that this emotion may actually protect against mood problems. Our findings are also consistent with prior research indicating that guilt-prone individuals are less likely to engage in aggression when angered (Tangney et al, 1992a;.…”

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“…In the case of shame, a sizeable array of studies with adults clearly demonstrates that this emotion is related to a range of problems including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse (e.g., Andrews et al, 2000, Ashby et al, 2006, Ghatavi et al 2002, Harper & Arias, 2004, Murray et al, 2000, Sanftner et al, 1995, Stuewig & McCloskey, 2005.…”

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“…Guilt, in contrast, is not associated with problems such as depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem (Leskela et al, 2002;Quiles & Bybee, 1997;Schaefer, 2000;Stuewig & McCloskey, 2005;Tangney & Dearing, 2002). Guilt may even serve as a protective factor against psychopathology in some cases, as it is associated with better anger management (Tangney et al, 1992), later onset of alcohol use (Tangney & Dearing, 2002), and reduced likelihood of drug and alcohol problems (Dearing et al, 2005).…”

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Remorse, psychopathology, and psychopathy among adolescent offenders.

Spice¹,

Viljoen²,

Douglas³

et al. 2015

Law and Human Behavior

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Remorse has long been important to the juvenile justice system. However, the nature of this construct has not yet been clearly articulated, and little research has examined its relationships with other theoretically and legally relevant variables. The present study was intended to address these issues by examining relationships among remorse, psychopathology, and psychopathy in a sample of adolescent offenders (N = 97) using the theoretically and empirically established framework of guilt and shame (Tangney & Dearing, 2002). Findings indicated that shame was positively related to behavioural features of psychopathy, whereas guilt was negatively related to psychopathic characteristics more broadly. In addition, shame was positively associated with numerous mental health problems whereas guilt was negatively associated with anger, depression, and anxiety. These results provide empirical support for theory that psychopathy is characterized by lack of remorse (e.g., Hare, 1991), and also underscore shame and guilt as potentially important treatment targets for adolescent offenders. Remorse 3Remorse, Psychopathology, and Psychopathy among Adolescent Offenders

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Section: Shame Guilt and Mental Healthmentioning

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Remorse, psychopathology, and psychopathy among adolescent offenders.

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Viljoen²,

Douglas³

et al. 2015

Law and Human Behavior

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“…As described by Tangney (2003, p. 386), "moral emotions provide the motivational force-the power and energy-to do good and to avoid doing bad." For example, people who are prone to feeling guilty after committing transgressions behave less aggressively when angered (Stuewig, Tangney, Heigel, Harty, & McCloskey, 2010;Tangney, Wagner, Hill-Barlow, Marschall, & Gramzow, 1996), are less likely to commit delinquent offenses as adolescents (Stuewig & McCloskey, 2005), and express more disapproval of lying in business negotiations (Cohen, 2010). Likewise, inducing people to feel guilty by having them recall past misdeeds causes them to behave more cooperatively in interpersonal interactions (de Hooge, Zeelenberg, & Breugelmans, 2007;Ketelaar & Au, 2003).…”

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Introducing the GASP scale: A new measure of guilt and shame proneness.

Cohen¹,

Wolf²,

Panter³

et al. 2011

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Although scholars agree that moral emotions are critical for deterring unethical and antisocial behavior, there is disagreement about how two prototypical moral emotions-guilt and shameshould be defined, differentiated, and measured. We addressed these issues by developing a new assessment-the Guilt And Shame Proneness scale (GASP)-that measures individual differences in the propensity to experience guilt and shame across a range of personal transgressions. The GASP contains two guilt subscales that assess negative behavior-evaluations (NBEs) and repair action tendencies following private transgressions and two shame subscales that assess negative self-evaluations (NSEs) and withdrawal action tendencies following publically-exposed transgressions. Both guilt subscales were highly correlated with one another and negatively correlated with unethical decision making. Although both shame subscales were associated with relatively poor psychological functioning (e.g., neuroticism, personal distress, low self-esteem), they were only weakly correlated with one another and their relationships with unethical decision making diverged. Whereas shame-NSE constrained unethical decision making, shame-withdraw did not. Our findings suggest that differentiating the tendency to make negative self-evaluations following publically-exposed transgressions from the tendency to hide or withdraw from public is critically important for understanding and measuring dispositional shame proneness. The GASP's ability to distinguish these two classes of responses represents an important advantage of the scale over existing assessments. Although further validation research is required, the present studies are promising in that they suggest the GASP has the potential to be an important measurement tool for detecting individuals susceptible to corruption and unethical behavior.

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“…Shame was proposed to be a main factor leading to poor adjustment (Feiring, Taska, & Lewis, 1996) and it seems to be a persistent emotion related to the abuse over many years and may also contribute to the maintenance of PTSD symptoms (Feiring & Taska, 2005). However, the emotional experience of shame and its relation to negative adjustment in adulthood is related not only to sexual abuse, but also to physical (Milligan & Andrews, 2005) and emotional abuse (Stuewig & McCloskey, 2005), and neglect (Bennett, Sullivan, & Lewis, 2010). Shame is an emotion that affects the whole person, related to negative self-appraisals and devaluation in relation to perceived public exposure or disapproval, leading to the desire to hide or escape from certain experiences (Tangney, 1998).…”

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A network analysis of anger, shame, proposed ICD-11 post-traumatic stress disorder, and different types of childhood trauma in foster care settings in a sample of adult survivors

Glück

Knefel

2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Anger and shame are aspects that are specifically associated with psychopathology and maladaptation after childhood abuse and neglect. They are known to influence symptom maintenance and exacerbation; however, their interaction is not fully understood. Objective: To explore with network analysis the association and interaction of prolonged, complex interpersonal childhood abuse and neglect in institutional foster care settings [institutional abuse (IA)] with anger, shame, and the proposed 11th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in adult survivors. Method: Adult survivors of IA (N = 220, mean age = 57.95 years) participated in the study and were interviewed using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, the International Trauma Questionnaire, the State–Trait Anger Expression Inventory, the Displaced Aggression Questionnaire, and shame-related items. To identify the most central aspects, we used a staged network analysis and centrality analysis approach: (1) on the scale level; (2) on the item/symptom level; and (3) with modularity analysis to find communities within the item-level network. Results: Trait anger, anger rumination, emotional abuse, and PTSD re-experiencing symptoms played the most important roles on a scale level and were then further analyzed on the item/symptom level. The most central symptom on the item level was anger rumination related to meaningful past events. The modularity analysis supported discriminant validity of the included scales. Conclusions: Anger is an important factor in the psychopathological processes following childhood abuse. Anger rumination is closely related to PTSD symptoms; however, anger is not a part of the proposed ICD-11 PTSD in the present study.

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The Relation of Child Maltreatment to Shame and Guilt Among Adolescents: Psychological Routes to Depression and Delinquency

Abstract: In a longitudinal study of children followed for 8

Cited by 279 publications

References 65 publications

Remorse, psychopathology, and psychopathy among adolescent offenders.

Remorse, psychopathology, and psychopathy among adolescent offenders.

Introducing the GASP scale: A new measure of guilt and shame proneness.

A network analysis of anger, shame, proposed ICD-11 post-traumatic stress disorder, and different types of childhood trauma in foster care settings in a sample of adult survivors

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