TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender-based personality traits in physically aggressive and non-aggressive antisocial behaviours
AU - Eman, Saima
AU - Nicolson, Roderick I.
AU - Blades, Mark
AU - Jha, Ravi P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/9/30
Y1 - 2022/9/30
N2 - background The current study aimed to understand the role of callousness, affective dissonance, and two subtypes of sensation seeking personality traits - 1) disinhibition and 2) thrill and adventure seeking - in physically aggressive and nonaggressive antisocial behaviours (ASB) among educated youth and to explore the gender differences in them. participants and procedure An online survey was sent to a large sample of students at a UK university. Initially, a sample of N = 539 participants was collected but after screening out the data, N = 429 participants were included for analyses based on the sampling criteria. results Callousness, disinhibition, and affective dissonance significantly predicted both antisocial behaviour subtypes. We found multidimensional nature of callousness in predicting antisocial behaviours, and an intriguing relationship between thrill and adventure seeking and affective dissonance. Interesting gender differences emerged. conclusions This study has implications for the understanding of the competitive roles of gender-based psychopathological personality traits in terms of callousness and affective dissonance and sensation seeking tendencies in physically aggressive and non-aggressive antisocial behaviours.
AB - background The current study aimed to understand the role of callousness, affective dissonance, and two subtypes of sensation seeking personality traits - 1) disinhibition and 2) thrill and adventure seeking - in physically aggressive and nonaggressive antisocial behaviours (ASB) among educated youth and to explore the gender differences in them. participants and procedure An online survey was sent to a large sample of students at a UK university. Initially, a sample of N = 539 participants was collected but after screening out the data, N = 429 participants were included for analyses based on the sampling criteria. results Callousness, disinhibition, and affective dissonance significantly predicted both antisocial behaviour subtypes. We found multidimensional nature of callousness in predicting antisocial behaviours, and an intriguing relationship between thrill and adventure seeking and affective dissonance. Interesting gender differences emerged. conclusions This study has implications for the understanding of the competitive roles of gender-based psychopathological personality traits in terms of callousness and affective dissonance and sensation seeking tendencies in physically aggressive and non-aggressive antisocial behaviours.
KW - affective dissonance
KW - antisocial behaviours
KW - callousness
KW - disinhibition
KW - sensation seeking
KW - thrill and adventure seeking
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U2 - 10.5114/cipp.2021.110942
DO - 10.5114/cipp.2021.110942
M3 - Article (journal)
AN - SCOPUS:85145753015
SN - 2353-4192
VL - 10
SP - 205
EP - 215
JO - Current Issues in Personality Psychology
JF - Current Issues in Personality Psychology
IS - 3
ER -