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Parental empathy is associated with risk of child maltreatment which is, in turn, associated with children's negative social outcomes. Yet familial relationships are not unidirectional. We aimed to examine the interplay between maternal and child empathy over two time points, two years apart, and how these are moderated by abuse risk. Participants were N = 250 mothers of children aged 4-10 years (48.4% girls). Bivariate change score models were computed to examine the relationship between changes in maternal and child's empathy. Maternal empathic concern predicted an increase in her child's cognitive empathy two years later. Interestingly, the child's cognitive empathy predicted a decrease in maternal personal-distress two years later, but only for high abuse-risk mothers. Additionally, maternal empathic concern predicted an increase in child's cognitive empathy for high abuse-risk mothers. The current study highlights the dynamic relationship between maternal empathy, maltreatment risk, and child's empathy.
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Child Maltreatment is the official journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the nation"s largest interdisciplinary child maltreatment professional organization. Child Maltreatment"s object is to foster professional excellence in the field of child abuse and neglect by reporting current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a form immediately useful to practitioners and researchers from mental health, child protection, law, law enforcement, medicine, nursing, and allied disciplines. Child Maltreatment emphasizes perspectives with a rigorous scientific base that are relevant to policy, practice, and research.
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