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- Title
Executive Attention and Empathy-Related Responses in Boys with Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder, With and Without Comorbid Anxiety Disorder.
- Authors
Pijper, Jarla; de Wied, Minet; van Rijn, Sophie; van Goozen, Stephanie; Swaab, Hanna; Meeus, Wim
- Abstract
This is a first study that investigated the relationships between executive attention-as an important aspect of emotion regulation-and state empathy and sympathy in ODD/CD boys with (N = 31) and without (N = 18) comorbid anxiety disorder (7-12 years). Empathic reactions were evoked using three sadness-inducing film clips. One clip was highly evocative involving a bear cub losing his mother, whilst two other clips were mildly evocative involving children in common childhood situations. Self-reports of empathy and sympathy were collected and executive attention was assessed with a performance task. Poor executive attention skills were associated with less empathy and sympathy, particularly in ODD/CD boys with anxiety and under conditions of a highly evocative stimulus. Our findings support the view that different mechanisms may be involved in empathy problems of ODD/CD children.
- Subjects
ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; EMPATHY; OPPOSITIONAL defiant disorder in children; OPPOSITIONAL defiant disorder in adolescence; ANXIETY disorders
- Publication
Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 2018, Vol 49, Issue 6, p956
- ISSN
0009-398X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s10578-018-0810-z