Concurrent and prospective effects of psychopathic traits on affective and cognitive empathy in a community sample of late adolescents.

Background A deficit in affective rather than cognitive empathy is thought to be central to psychopathic traits. However, empirical evidence for empathy deficits in adolescents with psychopathic traits is limited. We investigated the concurrent and prospective effects of psychopathic traits on affec...

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Published in:	Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry Vol. 54; no. 9; pp. 969 - 977
Main Authors:	Brouns, Bart H. J., de Wied, Minet Annette, Keijsers, Loes, Branje, Susan, van Goozen, Stephanie H. M., Meeus, Wim H. J.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Sep2013
Subjects:	Netherlands Adolescent psychology Analysis of variance Communities Empathy Epidemiology Psychological tests Pathological psychology Sex distribution Parent attitudes Adolescence Chi-squared test Confidence intervals Statistical correlation Latent structure analysis Longitudinal method Research funding T-test (Statistics) Data analysis Repeated measures design Descriptive statistics
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