Exploring the Empathy - Aggression Relationship, and Gender Related Differences in Greek College Students

作     者：Nathasha S.Sharma 

作者机构：Psychology Department of Hellenic American University/Hellenic American Education Center 

出 版 物：《Journal of Psychological Research》 (心理学研究（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第3卷第2期

页      面：45-67页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：Empathy Aggression Gender Greek Emotional regulation 

摘      要：The present study examined the inverse relationship between empathy(cognitive and affective)and forms of aggression(physical,verbal,anger and hostility).Previous research has continuously argued that empathy mitigates forms of aggression in individuals due to cognitive perspective taking and emotional sharing with others,that buffer hostile behaviour towards one ***,there is a gap in the literature regarding this association in Greek *** correlational analysis examined empathy using the widely known multifaceted Davis Interpersonal Re­activity Index and aggression was explored using the multi-dimensional Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire in a sample of 92 Greek under­graduate college students from two private institutions in Athens,*** effects on aggression and empathy levels were investigated as *** results revealed that cognitive and emotional empathy indeed demonstrates a negative relationship with direct physical ***,other forms of aggression such as verbal aggression,hostility and anger were positively associated with personal distress and Empathic fantasy majorly linked to Greek emotional regulation *** displayed higher Empathic fantasy scores compared to males.A cultur­al perspective was adopted in exploring the results considering norms,gender roles,collective regulation capacities and societal conditioning,offering links to previous literature and theories.