Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Empathic deficits among male batterers: a multidimensional approach
Other Titles:	Journal of family violence
Authors:	Huss, Matthew T Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Jennifer Covell, Christmas N
Keywords:	Perpetrators
Year:	2007
Publisher:	Kluwer Academic Plenum Publishers
Citation:	22 (3), August 2006
Notes:	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. [?2007 Springer. All rights reserved. For further information, visit SpringerLink.]
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/14547
ISSN:	0885-7482
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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