ArticleClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2023
Empathic Accuracy and Shared Depressive Symptoms in Close Relationships.
Article in Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Alexithymia in dyadic interactions: Associations with affective and sympathetic nervous system reactivity and empathic accuracy.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Intergenerational associations of depression and anxiety among adult mother-daughter dyads in China.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026Article
- Directional bias in interpersonal emotion perception.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Empathy and mental health distress in informal caregivers of dementia and stroke patients: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Caregiver Assessment of Socioemotional Functioning in People Living With Neurodegenerative Disease (Part 2): Concurrent Validity and Test-Retest Reliability of a New Measure.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Mechanisms creating homogamy in depressiveness in couples: A longitudinal study from Czechia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Siblings' similarity in neural responses to loss reflects mechanisms of familial transmission for depression.Journal of psychiatric research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Empathic accuracy, the ability to accurately understand others' emotions, is typically viewed as beneficial for mental health. However, empathic accuracy may be problematic when a close relational partner is depressed because it promotes shared depression. Across two studies, we measured empathic accuracy using laboratory tasks that capture the ability to rate others' emotional valence accurately over time: first, in a sample of 156 neurotypical married couples (Study 1; Total N=312), and then in a sample of 102 informal caregivers of individuals with dementia (Study 2). Across both studies, the association between empathic accuracy and depressive symptoms varied as a function of a partner's level of depressive symptoms. Greater empathic accuracy was associated with (a) fewer depressive symptoms when a partner lacked depressive symptoms, but (b) more depressive symptoms when a partner had high levels of depressive symptoms. Accurately detecting changes in others' emotional valence may underpin shared depressive symptoms.
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