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Assessing Burdening Guilt and Its Correlates
Jessica Leonardi, Francesco Gazzillo, Bernard Gorman, Marshall Bush
Psychodynamic PsychiatryVol. 51, Issue 4pp. 479-499
01/01/2023
DOI: 10.1521/pdps.2023.51.4.479
Articolo Internazionale
Abstract
Burdening guilt refers to the belief that one’s emotions, needs, and ways of being are a burden to others, and is one type of interpersonal guilt proposed by the control-mastery theory (CMT). The aim of this article is to validate two new measures of burdening guilt. In the two studies conducted, we examined the psychometric properties of these scales and the relationship between bur- dening guilt and self-perceived burden (burdensomeness), self-esteem, shame, anxiety, depression, mental health, attachment insecurity, adverse childhood experiences, social desirability, empathy, and suicidal ideation. In Study 1, we presented a newly developed Burdening Guilt Rating Scale (BGRS) and its correlation with measures of the abovementioned dimensions. In Study 2 we verified, through confirmatory factor analysis and correlation techniques, the possibility of expanding the Interpersonal Guilt Rating Scale-15 with a shorter, 5-item burdening guilt scale derived from the BGRS, and showed that this shorter scale correlates similarly to the longer one. Findings allowed us to validate these new scales providing empirical measures of burdening guilt—a theoretical concept with important clinical implications.
Parole Chiave
Burdening guilt
control-mastery theory (CMT)
burdensomeness
self-esteem
shame
anxiety
depression
attachment insecurity
suicidal ideation
Articolo Internazionale
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