Cognitive Empathy Partially Mediates the Relationship between Childhood Physical Abuse and Borderline Personality Disorder Features in College Students

A stenography of empathy: Toward a consensual model of the empathic process

“…RBA: rapid and brief assessment of the empathee; M: maladaptive emotion regulation; A: adaptive emotion regulation. and higher personal distress (both perspective-taking and personal distress) [65][66][67][68] (other studies showed only cognitive empathy [69][70][71], or personal distress impairments [72,73]). Our model can explain how their empathic process might be related to interpersonal conflicts (see Fig.…”

Does Childhood Maltreatment Predict Moral Disgust? The Underlying Mediating Mechanisms

“…There may exist many potential factors affecting moral disgust, among which the home environment children experience when they are young may be the root cause. Additionally, childhood maltreatment refers to a seriously disordered parent–child relationship accompanied with an unstable family environment [ 7 ], which has been proved by a great amount of literature to be the antecedent of many negative results, such as aggression [ 8 , 9 ], borderline personality disorder [ 10 ] and addiction [ 11 ]. Importantly, previous studies have found that exposure to maltreatment impairs individuals’ moral sensitivity [ 12 ] and result in more immoral behaviours [ 13 ].…”

“…Thus, empathy may also explain the link between childhood maltreatment and moral disgust, and some indirect evidence helps support our hypothesis. First, previous literature has shown that childhood maltreatment impedes the development of empathy [ 10 ]. This may be accounted for by the negative cognition patterns and attribution style that individuals with an abused history tend to use, which have a negative effect on the ability of reading others’ emotions [ 32 ].…”