Taking blame for antisocial acts and its relationship with personality
To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Link field The main aim of the present study was to investigate the motivation behind people taking the blame for another person’s antisocial acts. One thousand four hundred and thirty-two students in...
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ftlandspitaliuni:oai:www.hirsla.lsh.is:2336/13051 2023-05-15T16:50:41+02:00 Taking blame for antisocial acts and its relationship with personality Gudjonsson, Gisli H Sigurdsson, Jón Fridrik Einarsson, Emil 2007-07-31 YES http://hdl.handle.net/2336/13051 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2006.11.002 en eng Elsiver http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2006.11.002 Personality and Individual Differences 2007, 43(1):3-13 0191-8869 doi:10.1016/j.paid.2006.11.002 http://hdl.handle.net/2336/13051 Article 2007 ftlandspitaliuni https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2006.11.002 2022-05-29T08:20:59Z To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Link field The main aim of the present study was to investigate the motivation behind people taking the blame for another person’s antisocial acts. One thousand four hundred and thirty-two students in further education in Iceland completed a specially constructed Motivation for Taking Blame Scale (MTBS), along with personality tests measuring antisocial personality traits, self-esteem, and compliance. Two hundred and thirty-two (16%) claimed to have taken the blame for an antisocial act somebody else had done (mainly for property offences and criminal damage). The majority (70%) took the blame for a friend. Principal component analysis of the MTBS revealed five factors: Excitement, Pressure, Disregard, Avoidance, and Cover-up. EPQ Psychoticism was the single best predictor for the Excitement and Disregard motives, whereas GCS Compliance was the only significant predictor for the Pressure and Avoidance motives. The Cover-up motive, although the most commonly endorsed factor, had a poor relationship with the personality measures. There are a number of different motives for taking blame, but this is most commonly done to protect the guilty person and do him or her a favour. Personality, particularly personality disorder traits and compliance, are significant predictor variables for taking blame for others. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Hirsla - Landspítali University Hospital research archive Personality and Individual Differences 43 1 3 13 |
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To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Link field The main aim of the present study was to investigate the motivation behind people taking the blame for another person’s antisocial acts. One thousand four hundred and thirty-two students in further education in Iceland completed a specially constructed Motivation for Taking Blame Scale (MTBS), along with personality tests measuring antisocial personality traits, self-esteem, and compliance. Two hundred and thirty-two (16%) claimed to have taken the blame for an antisocial act somebody else had done (mainly for property offences and criminal damage). The majority (70%) took the blame for a friend. Principal component analysis of the MTBS revealed five factors: Excitement, Pressure, Disregard, Avoidance, and Cover-up. EPQ Psychoticism was the single best predictor for the Excitement and Disregard motives, whereas GCS Compliance was the only significant predictor for the Pressure and Avoidance motives. The Cover-up motive, although the most commonly endorsed factor, had a poor relationship with the personality measures. There are a number of different motives for taking blame, but this is most commonly done to protect the guilty person and do him or her a favour. Personality, particularly personality disorder traits and compliance, are significant predictor variables for taking blame for others. |
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