December 14, 2020
When sociologists detailed the rise of “victimhood culture” several years ago, they were vilified for triggering the people most likely to see victimization in everything.
Now researchers at American and Israeli universities claim to have identified perpetual victimhood as a “novel personality trait” that they refer to as “Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood.”
Writing in
Personality and Individual Differences, they say the trait is marked by “an enduring feeling that the self is a victim across different kinds of interpersonal relationships.” The findings “suggest that victimhood is a stable and meaningful personality tendency,” according to the article abstract.
The authors are Rahav Gabay and Arie Nadler in Tel Aviv University’s School of Psychological Sciences, Boaz Hameiri in the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and TAU’s Evens Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation, and Tammy Rubel-Lifs
Here’s some news: As it turns out, there’s a bunch of people in the world who think of themselves as victims.
Even though they aren’t.
If you own a TV, you may have come to such a conclusion multiple times a day.
But now it’s been declared by people you can always trust: researchers.
Personality and Individual Differences reveals a newly-defined type.
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It is important to me that people who hurt me acknowledge that an injustice has been done to me.
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A new study has defined the tendency for some individuals to see themselves as victims, including in seemingly harmless exchanges, often leading to a desire for revenge against those who wronged them and a sense of entitlement, numerous sources reported.
The new construct, called the “Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood” (TIV), was defined by researchers Rahav Gabay and Boaz Hameiri as an “enduring feeling that the self is a victim across different kinds of interpersonal relationships,” according to PsyPost.
Psychologists have identified “how a person’s interpretation of social transgressions can inform feelings of victimhood and lead to revenge behaviors.”