Poznawczo - emocjonalne predyktory agresywności relacyjnej : rola zdolności rozumienia emocji, afektywnych reakcji empatycznych i wrogości : doniesienie wstępne

Abstract

Relational aggressiveness refers to actions focused on harming others through destroying their social rela-tions, manipulating their social inclusion/exclusion, and threatening their social status (Crick & Grotpeter, 1995). Among predictors of relational aggressiveness are empathic responding and hostility (Loudin, Loukas & Robinson, 2003). Relational aggressiveness, empathy and hostility are connected with process-ing of social and emotional information. Processing of emotional information depends on the ability to understand emotions in others (Salovey & Mayer, 1990). The current research (n = 147; n = 143) explored the relationship between relational aggressiveness, understanding of emotions, empathic concern, personal distress, empathy, and hostility. There was conÞrmed the negative correlation between emotion understand-ing and relational aggressiveness. There was also proposed and initially conÞrmed a model of relations between emotion understanding and relational aggressiveness, mediated by personal distress and hostility. Emotion understanding appeared to moderate relation between empathic concern and relational aggression.