The Association among Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, Hostility, and Empathy in a Sample of Young Italian Adults

The aim of the present study was to assess the role of empathy in mediating the association between difficulties in emotion regulation and hostility. Three hundred and sixty young Italian adults (220 women and 140 men) were enrolled in the study. Psychopathological assessments included the Difficult...

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Autores principales: Contardi, Anna, Imperatori, Claudio, Penzo, Ilaria, Del Gatto, Claudia, Farina, Benedetto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4948006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27486417
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01068
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author Contardi, Anna
Imperatori, Claudio
Penzo, Ilaria
Del Gatto, Claudia
Farina, Benedetto
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Imperatori, Claudio
Penzo, Ilaria
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description The aim of the present study was to assess the role of empathy in mediating the association between difficulties in emotion regulation and hostility. Three hundred and sixty young Italian adults (220 women and 140 men) were enrolled in the study. Psychopathological assessments included the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), the Interpersonal Reactivity Index and the Buss–Durkee Hostility Inventory (BDHI). Perspective taking (PT) and Personal distress (PD) are significantly associated with both DERS total score and BDHI total score. A mediational model analyzing the direct and indirect effects of DERS on BDHI through the mediating role of PT and PD showed that the relation between DERS and BDHI was partially mediated by PT total score (b = 0.16; se = 0.01; p = 0.02). Taken together our findings support the possibility that PT skills could play a crucial role in inhibiting hostility behaviors.
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spelling pubmed-49480062016-08-02 The Association among Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, Hostility, and Empathy in a Sample of Young Italian Adults Contardi, Anna Imperatori, Claudio Penzo, Ilaria Del Gatto, Claudia Farina, Benedetto Front Psychol Psychology The aim of the present study was to assess the role of empathy in mediating the association between difficulties in emotion regulation and hostility. Three hundred and sixty young Italian adults (220 women and 140 men) were enrolled in the study. Psychopathological assessments included the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), the Interpersonal Reactivity Index and the Buss–Durkee Hostility Inventory (BDHI). Perspective taking (PT) and Personal distress (PD) are significantly associated with both DERS total score and BDHI total score. A mediational model analyzing the direct and indirect effects of DERS on BDHI through the mediating role of PT and PD showed that the relation between DERS and BDHI was partially mediated by PT total score (b = 0.16; se = 0.01; p = 0.02). Taken together our findings support the possibility that PT skills could play a crucial role in inhibiting hostility behaviors. Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4948006/ /pubmed/27486417 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01068 Text en Copyright © 2016 Contardi, Imperatori, Penzo, Del Gatto and Farina. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Contardi, Anna
Imperatori, Claudio
Penzo, Ilaria
Del Gatto, Claudia
Farina, Benedetto
The Association among Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, Hostility, and Empathy in a Sample of Young Italian Adults
title The Association among Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, Hostility, and Empathy in a Sample of Young Italian Adults
title_full The Association among Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, Hostility, and Empathy in a Sample of Young Italian Adults
title_fullStr The Association among Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, Hostility, and Empathy in a Sample of Young Italian Adults
title_full_unstemmed The Association among Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, Hostility, and Empathy in a Sample of Young Italian Adults
title_short The Association among Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, Hostility, and Empathy in a Sample of Young Italian Adults
title_sort association among difficulties in emotion regulation, hostility, and empathy in a sample of young italian adults
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4948006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27486417
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01068
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