ArticleScientific reports2023
Increased empathic distress in adults is associated with higher levels of childhood maltreatment.
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- Empathy profiles in posttraumatic stress disorder: A person-centered approach to understanding emotion dysregulation and psychopathology.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Heterogeneous Trajectories of Prosocial Behavior in Adolescents with Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Roles of Empathy and Social support.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- The mediating role of emotional empathy in the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and misophonia: a structural equation modeling.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Latent profiles of emotional intelligence and associated factors among clinical nurses: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Adding to the burden: the tendency to resonate with others' stress is linked to higher PTSD symptom severity in individuals with war-related trauma.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Early Life Adversity and Empathy: A Scoping Review of Past Research and Recommendations for Future Directions.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Article
- Effects of childhood maltreatment on mothers' empathy and parenting styles in intergenerational transmission.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exploring the Role of Empathy in the Association Between Early Life Adversity and Antisocial Behavior.Affective science · 2025Article
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Abstract
While many studies investigated basic facets of empathy, less is known about the association with early life adversity (ELA). To investigate a possible association of empathy with ELA, we assessed self-reported ELA, using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) for mother and father, and empathy, using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), in a sample of N = 228 (83% female, age
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