Relational Aggressiveness in Adolescence: Relations With Emotional Awareness and Self-Control

Abstract: Involvement in relationally aggressive conduct is an important contributor to maladaptive functioning in both childhood and adulthood. Decreased emotional awareness and impairments of self-control are risk factors for relational aggressiveness, while emotional awareness can also be treated as an important prerequisite for proper self-control. The aim of the study was to examine the associations between dimensions of emotional awareness (attention to emotions and emotional clarity), self-control, and relational aggressiveness. Self-control was also examined as a mediating variable between emotional awareness and relational aggressiveness. Self-report measures of trait meta-mood, alexithymia, self-control, and relational aggressiveness were completed by 214 adolescents (129 females), aged 15–23. The confirmatory factor analysis confirmed two factors of emotional awareness: (1) inattention to emotions (reflecting low attention to emotions and externally oriented thinking) and (2) a la.... https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/2489

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Relational Aggressiveness in Adolescence: Relations With Emotional Awareness and Self-Control ; volume:13 ; number:4 ; day:28 ; month:12 ; year:2018
Social psychological bulletin ; 13, Heft 4 (28.12.2018)

Creator
Marcin Moroń
Agnieszka Doktor
Karolina Glinka

DOI
10.32872/spb.v13i4.28302
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101416194531131881
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Marcin Moroń
  • Agnieszka Doktor
  • Karolina Glinka

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