Love torturing animals? you may have psychopathic tendencies

Two types of animal torture behavior

Before going any further about the latent dangers that animal abuse can reveal, it is worthwhile to examine the types of animal abuse. According to the Canadians for Animal Welfare Reform, or what is often abbreviated as CFAWR, there are two types of animal abuse, active cruelty and passive cruelty . Active cruelty is a form of torture with the aim of hurting animals, meanwhile passive cruelty is a form of purposeless torture, such as forgetting to feed or drink a pet, for an extended period of time.

E. Buckles, D. N. Jones, and D. L. Paulhus in 2013 conducted a study to see sadistic behavior in everyday life. A total of 78 psychology students were included in this study. The respondents were asked to fill out several questionnaires that can measure sadistic traits, dark triad (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy), and a measure of the respondent's disgust towards various things. Apart from that, there is Yes-or-No Question which needs to be filled in to know the fear of insects. Finally, respondents were asked to fill out a questionnaire adjective-rating measure.

First of all, respondents were asked to select several occupations; killing insects (category: pest exterminator), helping experimenters kill insects (category: pest control), cleaning toilets, and handling ice (a job done in a cold place). Of the 78 respondents (but only 71 data could be processed because 7 of them were not recorded), 12.7% chose to hold ice, 33.8% chose to clean the toilet, 26.8% chose to help the experimenter kill insects, and the remaining 26.8% chose to kill insects. For pest killers, respondents have a high score of sadistic behavior. Another surprising result was that respondents with high sadistic behavior scores felt pleasure in torturing animals. From this study, it can be concluded that sadism is a predictable factor by torturing animals.

Animal abuse can be an indication of a psychopathic nature

Hi, this is reinforced by a study conducted by Dr. Phillip Kavanagh and colleagues. Torture of animals can also indicate a person's traits Dark Triad (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). What Dr. Phillp Kavanagh reflected in his studies. This study states that psychopathic traits are related to a person's intention to intentionally harm animals.

There is clear evidence in life, that many serial killers, such as Jeffrey Dahmer, began their childhood killing career by killing animals, collecting dead animals, mutilating, and masturbating in front of the animals he had slaughtered before. Mary Bell, a murderer whose victims were young children, admitted to strangling a dove to death in her childhood.

People who like to torture animals have a tendency to hurt humans without sympathy

It can be concluded that animal abuse behavior tends to be carried out by people with high sadism scores based on 10-item Short Sadistic Impulse scale . Abuse of animals in childhood tends to result in adulthood Dark Triad type psychopathy. In addition, torture of animals is an indication that someone has been exposed Antisocial Personality Disorder , namely a personality disorder that makes sufferers tend to be apathetic to the prevailing norms. Dark Triad type psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder can produce a tendency not only to harm animals, but to be able to harm humans without the sympathy and empathy that follows.

So, get to know your loved ones. Also shape your child to be a child full of empathy and sympathy. Love them they should be loved. Although once the disturbance is formed it is difficult to completely eliminate the possibility (marked by the return of the prisoners returning to commit the same crimes), your helping hand can reduce their tendency to commit crimes. It should also be remembered that the formation of a human personality is very complex. One disorder may consist of several indications and backgrounds that are unique to each human being.