Does Gender Role Moderate the Relationship Between Empathy and Psychopathy?

Psychopathic individuals are distinct from non-psychopathic individuals in affective, interpersonal, and behavioral domains. A hallmark characteristic of psychopathic individuals is lack of empathy. Gender differences have been identified with regards to psychopathy and empathy. The current study ex...

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spelling ndltd-fsu.edu-oai-fsu.digital.flvc.org-fsu_2544322020-06-20T03:08:44Z Does Gender Role Moderate the Relationship Between Empathy and Psychopathy? Gummelt, Haley (authoraut) Carbonell, Joyce (professor directing dissertation) Gertz, Marc (university representative) Patrick, Chris (committee member) Schatschneider, Chris (committee member) Cougle, Jesse (committee member) Department of Psychology (degree granting department) Florida State University (degree granting institution) Text text Florida State University Florida State University English eng 1 online resource computer application/pdf Psychopathic individuals are distinct from non-psychopathic individuals in affective, interpersonal, and behavioral domains. A hallmark characteristic of psychopathic individuals is lack of empathy. Gender differences have been identified with regards to psychopathy and empathy. The current study examined two factors of empathy, Cognitive and Affective Empathy, and employed a triarchic model of psychopathy, which included boldness, meanness, and disinhibition as the three factors (Patrick, Fowles, & Krueger, 2009). The current study examined whether gender and/or gender roles moderated the relationship between the empathy and psychopathy factors. It was expected that gender roles, rather than gender alone, would moderate the relationship between empathy and psychopathy, such that masculine individuals would be deficient in empathy and endorse more psychopathic characteristics, whereas feminine individuals were expected to have more empathy and endorse fewer psychopathic characteristics. As expected, in the current study, females demonstrated higher levels of femininity, as well as empathy and cooperation, whereas males demonstrated higher levels of psychopathy (specifically boldness and meanness) and the propensity to look out only for their best interests and not cooperate with others. Further, masculine individuals demonstrated higher levels of boldness and meanness. Results from an Exploratory Factor Analysis, Canonical Correlation, and Hierarchical Regression indicated that affective empathy factors, rather than cognitive empathy factors, demonstrated the strongest negative relationship with boldness and meanness. Disinhibition demonstrated no relationship with either affective or cognitive empathy factors. Implications of these results are discussed. A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Summer Semester, 2014. February 24, 2014. Affective Empahy, Cognitive Empathy, Empathy Differences, Gender Roles, Triarchic Model of Psychopathy Includes bibliographical references. Joyce Carbonell, Professor Directing Dissertation; Marc Gertz, University Representative; Chris Patrick, Committee Member; Chris Schatschneider, Committee Member; Jesse Cougle, Committee Member. Psychology Neurosciences FSU_migr_etd-8995 http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-8995 This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). The copyright in theses and dissertations completed at Florida State University is held by the students who author them. http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A254432/datastream/TN/view/Does%20Gender%20Role%20Moderate%20the%20Relationship%20Between%20Empathy%20and%20Psychopathy%3F.jpg
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Does Gender Role Moderate the Relationship Between Empathy and Psychopathy?
description Psychopathic individuals are distinct from non-psychopathic individuals in affective, interpersonal, and behavioral domains. A hallmark characteristic of psychopathic individuals is lack of empathy. Gender differences have been identified with regards to psychopathy and empathy. The current study examined two factors of empathy, Cognitive and Affective Empathy, and employed a triarchic model of psychopathy, which included boldness, meanness, and disinhibition as the three factors (Patrick, Fowles, & Krueger, 2009). The current study examined whether gender and/or gender roles moderated the relationship between the empathy and psychopathy factors. It was expected that gender roles, rather than gender alone, would moderate the relationship between empathy and psychopathy, such that masculine individuals would be deficient in empathy and endorse more psychopathic characteristics, whereas feminine individuals were expected to have more empathy and endorse fewer psychopathic characteristics. As expected, in the current study, females demonstrated higher levels of femininity, as well as empathy and cooperation, whereas males demonstrated higher levels of psychopathy (specifically boldness and meanness) and the propensity to look out only for their best interests and not cooperate with others. Further, masculine individuals demonstrated higher levels of boldness and meanness. Results from an Exploratory Factor Analysis, Canonical Correlation, and Hierarchical Regression indicated that affective empathy factors, rather than cognitive empathy factors, demonstrated the strongest negative relationship with boldness and meanness. Disinhibition demonstrated no relationship with either affective or cognitive empathy factors. Implications of these results are discussed. === A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. === Summer Semester, 2014. === February 24, 2014. === Affective Empahy, Cognitive Empathy, Empathy Differences, Gender Roles, Triarchic Model of Psychopathy === Includes bibliographical references. === Joyce Carbonell, Professor Directing Dissertation; Marc Gertz, University Representative; Chris Patrick, Committee Member; Chris Schatschneider, Committee Member; Jesse Cougle, Committee Member.
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title Does Gender Role Moderate the Relationship Between Empathy and Psychopathy?
title_short Does Gender Role Moderate the Relationship Between Empathy and Psychopathy?
title_full Does Gender Role Moderate the Relationship Between Empathy and Psychopathy?
title_fullStr Does Gender Role Moderate the Relationship Between Empathy and Psychopathy?
title_full_unstemmed Does Gender Role Moderate the Relationship Between Empathy and Psychopathy?
title_sort does gender role moderate the relationship between empathy and psychopathy?
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