Psychological Abuse,Neglect and Malevolent Creativity:The Mediating Role of Aggressiveness
Objective:To explore the relationship between psychological abuse,neglect and malevolent creativity of middle school students,and the mediating role of aggressiveness in this relation.Methods:A sample of 538 middle school students were tested with the Child Psychological Abuse and Neglect Scale,the Malevolent Creativity Behavior Scale and the Aggression Questionnaire-Chinese versions.Results:(l)Psychological abuse,neglect,aggressiveness and malevolent creativity were significantly and positively correlated with each other;(2)Aggression fully mediated the relationship between psychological abuse and malicious creativity and partially mediated the relationship between psychological neglect and ma-licious creativity.Conclusion:Psychological abuse affects malicious creativity only through aggression;psychological ne-glect can affect malicious creativity directly or promote it indirectly through aggression.
Malevolent creativityPsychological abuse and neglectAggressiveness
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