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An Exploratory Study of Personality Factors Related to Psychological Abuse and Gaslighting.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An Exploratory Study of Personality Factors Related to Psychological Abuse and Gaslighting./
Author:	Hightower, Erin.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	160 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-10B.
Subject:	Clinical psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10642512
ISBN:	9780355795974

An Exploratory Study of Personality Factors Related to Psychological Abuse and Gaslighting.
Hightower, Erin.

An Exploratory Study of Personality Factors Related to Psychological Abuse and Gaslighting. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 160 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Psy.D.)--William James College, 2017.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This study reveals gaslighting as a subtle and covert type of emotional and psychological abuse. Gaslighting involves a varying cluster of manipulations used to undermine an intended target person's reality and mental stability. The study uses the term gaslighter, the person who desires to maintain control, power, and a sense of being right in the relationship; and the term gaslightee, the one who unconsciously allows the gaslighter to define her sense of reality. This study explores the mechanisms of gaslighting as originating via the psychoanalytic processes of projective and defensive identification; both are unconscious processes. The effects of gaslighting tactics and behaviors causes the gaslightee to experience confusion, increasing self-doubt, diminished self-esteem, confusion, anxiety, depression, the urge to retreat, and can even provoke psychosis. While anecdotal in quality, extant research indicates intolerance of uncertainty, high sensory processing sensitivity, and neuroticism may be traits that render individuals vulnerable to experience gaslighting. The current study attempts to provide data regarding these possible traits that may lend one vulnerable to gaslighting. This was accomplished via a quasi-experimental correlational online survey design, with a sample of female participants (N = 40). Results indicate that gaslighting and other measures of psychological abuse are positively correlated. Further, when gaslight scores, measured via the Gaslight Questionnaire (GQ) were divided by median split, high levels of gaslighting were positively associated with high sensory processing sensitivity, the inhibitory anxiety subscale of intolerance for uncertainty, and neuroticism. This research has relevance for researchers, clinicians, and individuals who have suffered gaslighting. It provides an in-depth exploration of gaslighting, providing not only discussion for why it occurs, but how specific traits may lend vulnerability. It also provides a platform for future research regarding other contributing vulnerability factors that may be involved in gaslighting, and for the development of trait based recovery models from gaslighting and psychological abuse.

ISBN: 9780355795974Subjects--Topical Terms:

524863
Clinical psychology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Clinical psychology

An Exploratory Study of Personality Factors Related to Psychological Abuse and Gaslighting.
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