Ending a relationship with a cruel, psychopathic partner is hard enough, but many find that they continue feeling stuck or even traumatized after their break. New research explains why.
from a survivor’s perspective, also describes patterns of abuse and psychopathic traits in the context of abusive relationships.
“We wanted to learn which psychopathic traits were driving different types of abusive behaviors in intimate partner relationships,” says Courtney Humeny, a cognitive scientist at Carleton University in Canada and the lead author of the paper. “We also wanted to learn which psychopathic traits and patterns of intimate partner abuse were the most detrimental to survivors’ mental health.”
The study recruited 454 adult survivors of heterosexual abusive relationships who reported their ex-partner as having psychopathic traits. The participants then completed a series of questionnaires that took them about an hour to finish. These questionnaires assessed a number of characteristics relevant to the study including the degree to which their abuser demonstrated psychopathic traits and the survivor's abuse experiences.
The researchers found that psychopathic traits facilitate abusers’ perpetration of intimate partner abuse that is
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