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Marital quality improves self- and partner-reported psychopathy among Chinese couples: A longitudinal study.
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Journal of personality [J Pers] 2024 Apr; Vol. 92 (2), pp. 515-529. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 11. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Background: Psychopathy is closely related to many negative interpersonal outcomes in daily life, including violence. Therefore, psychopathy intervention in subclinical individuals has significant application value.<br />Objective: Guided by the personality-relationship transaction model and social investment theory, this study examined how marital quality affects self- and partner-rated psychopathy. We also used the actor-partner interdependence mediation model to explore the mediating effect of communication.<br />Methods: We examined self-reports and partner reports of psychopathy, marital quality, and communication among 260 married Chinese couples.<br />Results: The results indicated that marital quality directly influenced couples' self-rated psychopathy, with both actor and partner effects on husbands' psychopathy and actor effects on wives' psychopathy. Moreover, verbal communication had mediating effects at time 2 between marital quality at time 1 and partner-reported psychopathy at time 3. Meanwhile, the mediating effect of nonverbal communication was not significant.<br />Conclusion: Our investigation of relationship effects on psychopathy revealed that the underlying mechanisms differed between self- and partner-rated psychopathy. The findings can highlight directions for exploring potential intervention strategies for subclinical psychopathy.<br /> (© 2023 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1467-6494
- Volume :
- 92
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of personality
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 37170058
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12841