Dispositional empathy in high- and low-risk parents for child physical abuse

Pérez‐Albéniz, Alicia; Paúl, Joaquı́n de

doi:10.1016/s0145-2134(03)00111-x

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“…This indicates the absence of several factors such as the father's point of view (Flynn 1998), the form and severity of the violence the mothers experienced as children (Clément and Bouchard 2003;Deater-Deckard et al 2003), religious affiliation (Gershoff et al 1999;Jackson et al 1999) and ethnic origin (Deater-Deckard et al 2003;Flynn 1998;Straus and Stewart 1999). We might also consider the factors of empathy, personality traits, and the parents' psychological characteristics (i.e., symptoms of depression) (Leung and Smith-Slep 2006;Perez-Albeniz and De Paul 2003;Rodriguez 2008). Lastly, the mothers' responses in this kind of survey are inevitably subject to the bias of social desirability in spite of the precautions we took during the study in order to diminish its impact.…”

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The Role of Parental Stress, Mother’s Childhood Abuse and Perceived Consequences of Violence in Predicting Attitudes and Attribution in Favor of Corporal Punishment

Clément

Chamberland

2008

J Child Fam Stud

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We investigate maternal attitudes toward corporal punishment and the attribution of blame to the child on the basis of data gathered from a population survey of a representative sample of mothers and mother figures. A total of 3,148 women living at least half of the time with a child participated in a telephone survey. The independent variables included in the multivariate model predicting maternal attitudes and attributions include the child's, the mother's and the family's characteristics and social support. Results of the multiple regression analysis demonstrate the unique contribution of variables according to the mother's characteristics (mother's sensitivity to the consequences of violence, mother's experience of childhood violence and parental stress related to child's temperament). These results partially support the importance of prevention programs that would reduce stress and increase the level of parental empathy through the means of parental training.

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The Role of Parental Stress, Mother’s Childhood Abuse and Perceived Consequences of Violence in Predicting Attitudes and Attribution in Favor of Corporal Punishment

Clément

Chamberland

2008

J Child Fam Stud

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“…Similarly to the GMA, sympathetic individuals appear to have cognitive processes biased toward prosocial, as opposed to malevolent, outcomes. Accordingly, sympathetic individuals have been shown to exhibit more altruistic behaviors (Carlo & Randall, 2002;Oswald, 1996;Unger 74 LEE AND DOW & Thumuluri, 1997), less aggression (Carlo, Raffaelli, Laible, & Meyer, 1999), and lower risk of future violence (Perez-Albeniz & de Paul, 2003) than their less sympathetic counterparts. Not surprisingly, researchers consistently document a link between psychopathic traits and low levels of trait sympathy among both youth (Cohen & Strayer, 1996) and adult (MullinsNelson, Salekin, & Leistico, 2006) populations.…”

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Malevolent Creativity: Does Personality Influence Malicious Divergent Thinking?

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Dow

2011

Creativity Research Journal

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“…None of the studies completed a measurement equivalence analysis before testing their hypotheses. In addition, 2 of the 9 studies (Bush et al, 2000;Proctor & Beail, 2007) found no support for their hypotheses, whereas 5 of the 9 studies reported mixed results (Fisher et al, 1999;Lindsey et al, 2001;de Paul et al, 2008;Perez-Albeniz & de Paul, 2003;. The tendency of offender youth to respond in a socially desirable way could explain the lack of significant differences found in both the Lindsay et al (2001) and Bush et al (2000) studies.…”

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“…Using Google Scholar, PsychINFO, and Social Services Abstracts, nine relevant studies were identified (See Table 1). Five articles compared abusive and nonabusive parents (Francis & Wolfe, 2008;Wiehe, 2003) or parents at high-and low-risk for child physical abuse (de Paúl, Pérez-Albéniz, Guibert, Asla, & Ormaechea, 2008;Perez-Albeniz & de Paul, 2003; one contrasted child molesters and nonoffenders (Fisher, Beech & Browne, 1999); one used a sample of offenders and nonoffenders with intellectual disabilities (Proctor & Beail, 2007); and two articles compared juvenile offenders with nonoffenders (Bush, Mullis & Mullis, 2000;Lindsey et al, 2001). …”

Section: Offender Versus Nonoffender Empathy Studies Using the Irimentioning

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Examination of Known-Groups Validity for the Empathy Assessment Index (EAI): Differences in EAI Scores Between Social Service Providers and Service Recipients

Gerdes

Geiger

Lietz

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Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research

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This article reports the findings of a known-groups validity study of the Empathy Assessment Index (EAI), which is a 20-item self-report instrument based on an emerging social cognitive neuroscience definition of empathy. A convenience sample formed 2 groups of study participants: social service providers (n = 197), and a group (n =453) of offender service recipients from community treatment agencies, receiving services for (a) sexual offenses (n = 251), (b) anger management or misdemeanor domestic violence (n = 155), and (c), domestic violence (n = 47). The literature suggests providers and offenders should have significantly different levels of empathy. To test this hypothesis, we compare the group scores on the overall EAI and 4 component scores (affective response, perspective taking, self-other awareness, emotion regulation). Differential item functioning analysis is used to determine whether the EAI items measure the same construct within each group, and highlights 5 items. Results include findings from a multilevel regression analysis, using the 20-and 15-item versions of the EAI. For both versions, controlling for gender, age, education, income, class, and race variables, we find treatment groups have lower average empathy scores than service providers; this difference is statistically significant for 2 of the 3 treatment groups. The emotion regulation and self-other awareness EAI components demonstrate known-groups validity in 1 of the 3 treatment groups. Researchers can likely increase both known-groups and content validity of the EAI by using perceptionaction items of greater specificity in the affective response component and by adding an affective mentalizing component.

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Dispositional empathy in high- and low-risk parents for child physical abuse

Cited by 69 publications

References 40 publications

The Role of Parental Stress, Mother’s Childhood Abuse and Perceived Consequences of Violence in Predicting Attitudes and Attribution in Favor of Corporal Punishment

The Role of Parental Stress, Mother’s Childhood Abuse and Perceived Consequences of Violence in Predicting Attitudes and Attribution in Favor of Corporal Punishment

Malevolent Creativity: Does Personality Influence Malicious Divergent Thinking?

Examination of Known-Groups Validity for the Empathy Assessment Index (EAI): Differences in EAI Scores Between Social Service Providers and Service Recipients

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