The role of subclinical psychopathic traits on experimentally induced self- and other-compassion.

ABSTRACT: Psychopathic traits come with high levels of anger and aggression. Since previous studies showed that compassion can mitigate both anger and aggression, the current research puts compassion forward as a possible target to alleviate psychopathy's destructive patterns. Specifically, the present study explored the influence of subclinical psychopathic traits-as well as their three subcomponents egocentricity, callousness, and antisociality-on the efficacy of experimentally induced self-compassion (SC) and other-compassion (OC). This manuscript is part of a larger study in which student and community participants (N = 230, M _age = 27.41, 65.2% female) completed a psychopathic trait questionnaire to assess their dimensional level of psychopathy, filled out state

SUBMITTER: Lobbestael J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9681498 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature