ArticleBMC psychology2024
The effect of justice sensitivity on malevolent creativity: the mediating role of anger and the moderating role of emotion regulation strategies.
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- Antecedents of malevolent creativity: a meta-analysis of personality and press predictors.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Prospective association between bullying victimization and malevolent creativity among Chinese middle school students: the mediation of trait anger and moderation of moral identity.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- The Relationship Between Bullying Victimization and Malevolent Creativity in Chinese Middle School Students: A Moderated Chain Mediation Model.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Childhood trauma and malevolent creativity: the mediating role of positive psychological capital and gender differences.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Effects of Peer and Teacher Support on Students' Creative Thinking: Emotional Intelligence as a Mediator and Emotion Regulation Strategy as a Moderator.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- Field dependent-independent cognitive style as a predictor of malevolent creativity: a multifaceted approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundthe AMORAL model emphasizes the close connection of individuals' belief system and malevolent creativity. Belief in a just world theory (BJW) states that people have a basic need to believe that the world they live in is just, and everyone gets what they deserve. Therefore, justice matters to all people. Justice sensitivity, as one of individual trait, has been found associated with negative goals. However, relevant studies have not tested whether justice sensitivity can affect malevolent creativity and its psychological mechanisms. Additionally, researchers have found that both anger and emotion regulation linked with justice sensitivity and malevolent creativity, but their contribution to the relationship between justice sensitivity and malevolent creativity remained unclear. The current study aims to explore the influence of justice sensitivity on malevolent creativity, the mediating effect of trait anger/state anger on the relationship between justice sensitivity and malevolent creativity, and the moderating effect of emotion regulation on this mediating effect.
methodsA moderated mediating model was constructed to test the relationship between justice sensitivity and malevolent creativity. A sample of 395 Chinese college students were enrolled to complete the questionnaire survey.
resultsJustice sensitivity positively correlated with malevolent creativity, both trait anger and state anger partly mediated the connection between justice sensitivity and malevolent creativity. Moreover, emotion regulation moderated the indirect effect of the mediation model. The indirect effect of justice sensitivity on malevolent creativity through trait anger/state anger increased as the level of emotion regulation increased. The results indicated that justice sensitivity can affect malevolent creativity directly and indirectly through the anger. The level of emotion regulation differentiated the indirect paths of justice sensitivity on malevolent creativity.
conclusionsJustice sensitivity and malevolent creativity was mediated by trait anger/state anger. The higher sensitivity to justice, the higher level of trait anger/state anger, which in turn boosted the tendency of malevolent creativity. This indirect connection was moderated by emotion regulation, individuals with high emotion regulation are better able to buffer anger from justice sensitivity.
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