Relational Aggressiveness in Adolescence: Relations With Emotional Awareness and Self-Control
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Moroń, Marcin
Doktor, Agnieszka
Glinka, Karolina
Abstract / Description
Involvement in relationally aggressive conduct is an important contributor to maladaptive functioning in both childhood and adulthood. Decreased emotional awareness and impairments of self-control are risk factors for relational aggressiveness, while emotional awareness can also be treated as an important prerequisite for proper self-control. The aim of the study was to examine the associations between dimensions of emotional awareness (attention to emotions and emotional clarity), self-control, and relational aggressiveness. Self-control was also examined as a mediating variable between emotional awareness and relational aggressiveness. Self-report measures of trait meta-mood, alexithymia, self-control, and relational aggressiveness were completed by 214 adolescents (129 females), aged 15–23. The confirmatory factor analysis confirmed two factors of emotional awareness: (1) inattention to emotions (reflecting low attention to emotions and externally oriented thinking) and (2) a lack of emotional clarity (reflecting difficulties in identifying emotion, difficulties in describing emotion, and low clarity of emotion). Self-control and mood repair ability inversely correlated with proactive and reactive relational aggressiveness, whereas the clarity component of the meta-mood trait only inversely predicted reactive relational aggressiveness. Structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that direct relationships between inattention to emotions and relational aggressiveness, as well as between lack of emotional clarity and relational aggressiveness were non-significant. Nevertheless, a lack of emotional clarity was indirectly and significantly associated with relational aggressiveness through decreased self-control.
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emotional awareness attention to emotions clarity of emotions relational aggressiveness self-controlPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2018-12-28
Journal title
Social Psychological Bulletin
Volume
13
Issue
4
Article number
Article e28302
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PsychOpen GOLD
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Moroń, M., Doktor, A., & Glinka, K. (2018). Relational aggressiveness in adolescence: Relations with emotional awareness and self-control. Social Psychological Bulletin, 13(4), Article e28302. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.v13i4.28302
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Moroń, Marcin
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Doktor, Agnieszka
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Glinka, Karolina
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Date of first publication2018-12-28
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Abstract / DescriptionInvolvement in relationally aggressive conduct is an important contributor to maladaptive functioning in both childhood and adulthood. Decreased emotional awareness and impairments of self-control are risk factors for relational aggressiveness, while emotional awareness can also be treated as an important prerequisite for proper self-control. The aim of the study was to examine the associations between dimensions of emotional awareness (attention to emotions and emotional clarity), self-control, and relational aggressiveness. Self-control was also examined as a mediating variable between emotional awareness and relational aggressiveness. Self-report measures of trait meta-mood, alexithymia, self-control, and relational aggressiveness were completed by 214 adolescents (129 females), aged 15–23. The confirmatory factor analysis confirmed two factors of emotional awareness: (1) inattention to emotions (reflecting low attention to emotions and externally oriented thinking) and (2) a lack of emotional clarity (reflecting difficulties in identifying emotion, difficulties in describing emotion, and low clarity of emotion). Self-control and mood repair ability inversely correlated with proactive and reactive relational aggressiveness, whereas the clarity component of the meta-mood trait only inversely predicted reactive relational aggressiveness. Structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that direct relationships between inattention to emotions and relational aggressiveness, as well as between lack of emotional clarity and relational aggressiveness were non-significant. Nevertheless, a lack of emotional clarity was indirectly and significantly associated with relational aggressiveness through decreased self-control.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationMoroń, M., Doktor, A., & Glinka, K. (2018). Relational aggressiveness in adolescence: Relations with emotional awareness and self-control. Social Psychological Bulletin, 13(4), Article e28302. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.v13i4.28302en_US
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ISSN2569-653X
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/5805
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.6409
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.32872/spb.v13i4.28302
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Keyword(s)emotional awarenessen_US
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Keyword(s)attention to emotionsen_US
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Keyword(s)clarity of emotionsen_US
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Keyword(s)relational aggressivenessen_US
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Keyword(s)self-controlen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleRelational Aggressiveness in Adolescence: Relations With Emotional Awareness and Self-Controlen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Article numberArticle e28302
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Issue4
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Journal titleSocial Psychological Bulletin
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Volume13
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