Emotional Intelligence as a Framework for Understanding Violent Behavior in Victims of Childhood Abuse
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Authors
Dakin, Andrea L.
Issue Date
1997
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
Emotional intelligence is the ability to know and understand one's own emotions as well
as the emotions of others. Victims of childhood abuse often times lack this ability. In
addition, perpetrators of abuse often lack this ability as well. It has been shown in
previous studies how victims and perpetrators of abuse are, to varying degrees, unable to
identify, understand, and empathize with the emotions of others. Unacknowledged
feelings such as guilt and shame can lead to violence, masked as anger and rage. Using
emotional intelligence as a basis, we can create a theoretical framework in which
individual case studies are evaluated to determine how emotional intelligence plays a
role in the victim becoming or failing to become a perpetrator of violence. Four case
studies were evaluated and implications for further research were discussed.
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iv, 42 p.
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