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intropunitive, a. Psychol.|ɪntrəʊˈpjuːnɪtɪv| Also intrapunitive. [f. L. intrō inwardly (cf. intro-) + punitive a.] Blaming oneself rather than other people or events; of or pertaining to an unreasonable feeling of responsibility for frustrations or the like. Contrasted with extrapunitive a. and impunitive a.
1938S. Rosenzweig in H. A. Murray Explorations in Personality vi. 587 He may react with emotions of guilt and remorse and tend to condemn himself as the blameworthy object. This type of reaction may be termed ‘intropunitive’. 1954G. W. Allport Nature of Prejudice xxvii. 437 This inwardness and ability to know and to laugh at oneself make for the intropunitive tendency that we examined... Self-blame takes the place of projected external blame. 1958[see impunitive a.]. 1965B. I. Murstein Handbk. Projective Techniques xxxii. 575 These criteria included diagnostic council ratings.., Rosenzweig Extrapunitive and Intrapunitive Scores, and the self-ratings of the subject. 1969[see extrapunitive a.]. Hence introˈpunitiveness, the condition of being intropunitive.
1943Psychol. Abstr. XXVII. 99/2 Nonhypnotizability is associated with other defense mechanisms.., and with other reactions to frustration, such as intropunitiveness and extrapunitiveness. 1958M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour xii. 161 There is no evidence concerning the intropunitiveness or private religious activities of sect members, but the above three findings confirm the application of the reduction of guilt theory to sects. 1969M. D. Vernon Human Motivation ix. 145 One of the most frequently occurring types of intropunitiveness is anxiety. |