Psychopathy and trait emotional intelligence
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Psychopathic individuals are infamous for their chronic and diverse failures of social adjustment despite their adequate intellectual abilities. Non-cognitive factors, in particular trait emotional intelligence (EI), offer one possible explanation for their lack of success. This study explored the association between psychopathy and EI, as measured by the Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 2003) and Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS, Salovey, Mayer, Golman, Turvey & Palfai, 1995). Consistent with the Response Modulation (RM) model of psychopathy (Newman & Lorenz, 2003), low-anxious psychopathic individuals had significantly lower scores on TMMS Repair and Attention compared to controls. Consistent with proposals by Patrick and Lang (1999) regarding PCL-R factors, these EI deficits related to different aspects of the psychopathy construct. Correlations revealed significant inverse associations between PCL-R factor 1 and Attention and PCL-R factor 2 and Repair. We propose that the multi-dimensional EI framework affords a complementary perspective on laboratory-based explanations of psychopathy.
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Trait EI is negatively related to psychopathology.
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- Authors
- Malterer, M. B., Glass, S. J., & Newman, J. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Corresponding author
- Malterer, Melanie B.
- ORCID
- Newman, Joseph P.
- Venue
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-02
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 735-745
- ISSN
- 0191-8869 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2344134
- OpenAlex
- W1975779779
- Cited by
- 132
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Personality and Individual Differences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH053041)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Keywords
- psychopathy, trait emotional intelligence, Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, Trait Meta-Mood Scale, social adaptation, attention, repair, anxiety
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