ABSTRACT

Psychopathy is found to be associated with aggression. However, the role of “understanding the mental states of others” in this relation is not clearly understood yet. The current study aimed to increase our understanding of a specific ability of understanding the mental state of others, namely recognizing a faux pas, and understand the relation of this “social misstep” in self-reported aggressive behavior. The sample consisted of 105 individuals from the community (both males and females) who were tested with the Faux Pas test and several self-report questionnaires assessing triarchic psychopathic personality traits and aggression. We found a positive relationship between the triarchic constructs and self-reported proactive and reactive aggression. Additionally, although all psychopathy constructs were negatively related to self-reported empathy, only the boldness trait was negatively associated with faux pas recognition. No mediation effect of faux pas on the relation between psychopathy and aggression was found. Current findings underline the importance of differentiating different Theory of Mind and empathic abilities in relation to psychopathy and aggression, which is essential to develop effective interventions.

摘要

发现精神病与攻击性有关。然而，“了解他人的心理状态”在这种关系中的作用尚不清楚。目前的研究旨在增加我们对理解他人心理状态的特定能力的理解，即识别失礼，并了解这种“社交失误”与自我报告的攻击性行为的关系。该样本由来自社区的 105 名个人（男性和女性）组成，他们接受了 Faux Pas 测试和几份评估三元精神病态人格特征和攻击性的自我报告问卷的测试。我们发现三元结构与自我报告的主动和被动攻击之间存在正相关关系。此外，虽然所有的精神病结构都与自我报告的同理心呈负相关，只有大胆的特质与失礼的认识呈负相关。没有发现失礼对精神病和攻击性之间关系的中介作用。目前的研究结果强调了区分与精神病和攻击相关的不同心理理论和移情能力的重要性，这对于制定有效的干预措施至关重要。