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01-04-2007 | Original Paper

Empathic Deficits Among Male Batterers: A Multidimensional Approach

Authors: Christmas N. Covell, Matthew T. Huss, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling

Published in: Journal of Family Violence | Issue 3/2007

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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.

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Title: Empathic Deficits Among Male Batterers: A Multidimensional Approach
Authors: Christmas N. Covell
Matthew T. Huss
Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
Publication date: 01-04-2007
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Published in: Journal of Family Violence / Issue 3/2007
Print ISSN: 0885-7482
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2851
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-007-9066-2

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