Empathic Deficits Among Male Batterers: A Multidimensional Approach

Although recent literature has focused considerable attention on the link between empathic deficits and violence in studies of childhood aggression and sexual assault, relatively few studies have directly examined the relationship of empathic deficits to domestic violence. This study examined a mult...

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Published in:Journal of family violence 2007-04, Vol.22 (3), p.165-174
Main Authors: Covell, Christmas N, Huss, Matthew T, Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Jennifer
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abusers
Abusive men
Aggression
Aggressiveness
Child abuse
Childhood
Domestic violence
Empathy
Family Violence
Intimate partner violence
Males
Men
Multidimensional approach
Partner Abuse
Perpetrators
Personality
Predictions
Psychology
Sex crimes
Sexual Assault
Social aspects
Social problems
Social research
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Summary:Although recent literature has focused considerable attention on the link between empathic deficits and violence in studies of childhood aggression and sexual assault, relatively few studies have directly examined the relationship of empathic deficits to domestic violence. This study examined a multimodal construct of empathy as proposed by M. H. Davis (1980) and it's relationship to frequency of various types of intimate partner violence in a sample of domestically violent male perpetrators (n = 104). Preliminary results suggest that multiplicative patterns of empathic ability correspond to different types of violence. Moreover, patterns of empathic ability were more useful in predicting various expressions of intimate partner violence than were the empathic factors when considered individually. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0885-7482
1573-2851
DOI:10.1007/s10896-007-9066-2