Document Type
Article
Source Publication Title
Personal Relationships
First Page
369
Last Page
388
Abstract
This study compared the empathic accuracy of men and women who had perpetrated physical intimate partner violence with that of partners in nonviolent but distressed and nonviolent and nondistressed relationships. Examined was the empathic accuracy (a) of partners for one another’s thoughts and feelings during a relationship problem discussion in the laboratory, (b) of partners’ empathic accuracy for each other with the empathic accuracy of objective observers who watched the couples’ interactions, and (c) the males’ empathic accuracy for their female partner to their empathic accuracy for female strangers. No significant group differences were found among women’s empathic accuracy, but the data suggest that violent men exhibit poor empathic accuracy when attempting to understand their female partner’s thoughts and feelings.
Disciplines
Psychology | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Publication Date
9-1-2007
Language
English
License
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Recommended Citation
Ickes, William; Clements, Kahni; Holtzworth-Munroe, Amy; and Schweinle, William, "Empathic accuracy of intimate partners in violent versus nonviolent relationships." (2007). Psychology Faculty Publications. 29.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/psychology_facpubs/29