Spantidaki Kyriazi Foteini, Bogaerts Stefan, Tamir Maya, Denissen Jaap J A, Garofalo Carlo
Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Fivoor Science and Treatment Innovation, Poortugaal, The Netherlands.
J Pers Disord. 2021 Mar;35(Suppl A):57-82. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2020_34_488. Epub 2020 Oct 27.
Psychopathy is associated with profound emotional disturbances. Yet little is known about associations between psychopathic traits and what individuals to feel (i.e., emotion goals). Associations between psychopathy and emotion goals were investigated in two studies with nonclinical samples ( = 148 undergraduate students; = 520 community sample). Four emotions often studied in psychopathy research were targeted: anger, fear, sadness, and joy. Furthermore, perceived utility and perceived pleasantness of emotions were assessed to investigate whether potential associations between psychopathy and emotion goals could be partly explained by instrumental or hedonic considerations, respectively. Psychopathic traits were positively related to negative emotion goals (primarily anger). Although joy was the most wanted emotion on average, psychopathy was negatively but less robustly related to the emotion goal of joy. Mediation analyses suggested differential motivational (hedonic and/or instrumental) mechanisms for different emotion goals. These findings provide preliminary evidence for motivated emotion regulation in psychopathy.
精神病态与严重的情绪障碍有关。然而，对于精神病态特质与个体的感受（即情绪目标）之间的关联却知之甚少。在两项针对非临床样本的研究中（研究1 = 148名本科生；研究2 = 520名社区样本），对精神病态与情绪目标之间的关联进行了调查。研究聚焦于精神病态研究中经常探讨的四种情绪：愤怒、恐惧、悲伤和喜悦。此外，还评估了情绪的感知效用和感知愉悦度，以分别探究精神病态与情绪目标之间的潜在关联是否可以部分地由工具性或享乐性因素来解释。精神病态特质与消极情绪目标（主要是愤怒）呈正相关。尽管平均而言喜悦是最被渴望的情绪，但精神病态与喜悦情绪目标呈负相关，不过相关性较弱。中介分析表明，不同情绪目标存在不同的动机（享乐性和/或工具性）机制。这些发现为精神病态中的动机性情绪调节提供了初步证据。
