Abstract
Individual differences can be observed in the propensity to experience certain emotions; for some emotions, most notably anxiety and disgust, the notion of sensitivity was also explored, namely one's tendency to evaluate negatively a given emotion and its effects. Based on observations made in the clinical practice, the authors suggest that this distinction may be usefully applied also to guilt, creating a specific instrument to measure guilt sensitivity. In the wake of such considerations, the authors developed the Guilt Sensivity Scale, a 10-item scale. It evaluates subjective sensitivity to guilt feelings by investigating: the tendency to avoid this feeling, its influence on the patient's life, and his/her ability to tolerate it. The major goal of this study is testing the psychometric properties of this scale. To this end, the scale was administered to a sample of 916 participants. In terms of psychometric properties, the instrument seems to be characterized by a significant, promising reliability and validity.
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@article{C.2015,
title = {Individual differences in guilt sensitivity scale (GSS)},
author = {Claudia Perdighe and Teresa Cosentino and Palmira Faraci and Andrea Gragnani and Angelo Maria Saliani and Francesco Mancini },
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Perdighe-et-al._2015.pdf},
doi = {10.4473/TPM22.3.3},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-05-01},
urldate = {2015-05-01},
journal = {Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology},
volume = {22},
number = {3},
pages = {349-362},
abstract = {Individual differences can be observed in the propensity to experience certain emotions; for some emotions, most notably anxiety and disgust, the notion of sensitivity was also explored, namely one's tendency to evaluate negatively a given emotion and its effects. Based on observations made in the clinical practice, the authors suggest that this distinction may be usefully applied also to guilt, creating a specific instrument to measure guilt sensitivity. In the wake of such considerations, the authors developed the Guilt Sensivity Scale, a 10-item scale. It evaluates subjective sensitivity to guilt feelings by investigating: the tendency to avoid this feeling, its influence on the patient's life, and his/her ability to tolerate it. The major goal of this study is testing the psychometric properties of this scale. To this end, the scale was administered to a sample of 916 participants. In terms of psychometric properties, the instrument seems to be characterized by a significant, promising reliability and validity.},
keywords = {guilt, Guilt scale, Individual differenc es, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Sensitivity},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
