Emotion recognition in fathers and mothers at high-risk for child physical abuse |
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| Authors: | Asla Nagore de Paúl Joaquín Pérez-Albéniz Alicia |
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| Institution: | a Departamento de Psicología Social y Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento, Facultad de Psicología, Avda. Tolosa 70, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
b Departamento de Ciencias de la Educación, Calle Luis de Ulloa s/n, Edificio VIVES, 26002 Logroño, Spain |
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| Abstract: | ObjectiveThe present study was designed to determine whether parents at high risk for physical child abuse, in comparison with parents at low risk, show deficits in emotion recognition, as well as to examine the moderator effect of gender and stress on the relationship between risk for physical child abuse and emotion recognition.MethodsBased on their scores on the Abuse Scale of the CAP Inventory (Milner, 1986), 64 parents at high risk (24 fathers and 40 mothers) and 80 parents at low risk (40 fathers and 40 mothers) for physical child abuse were selected. The Subtle Expression Training Tool/Micro Expression Training Tool (
Ekman, 2004a] and Ekman, 2004b]) and the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy II (Nowicki & Carton, 1993) were used to assess emotion recognition.ResultsAs expected, parents at high risk, in contrast to parents at low risk, showed deficits in emotion recognition. However, differences between high- and low-risk participants were observed only for fathers, but not for mothers. Whereas fathers at high risk for physical child abuse made more errors than mothers at high risk, no differences between mothers at low risk and fathers at low risk were found. No interaction between stress, gender, and risk status was observed for errors in emotion recognition.Conclusions and practice implicationsThe present findings, if confirmed with physical abusers, could be helpful to further our understanding of deficits in processing information of physically abusive parents and to develop treatment strategies specifically focused on emotion recognition. Moreover, if gender differences can be confirmed, the findings could be helpful to develop specific treatment programs for abusive fathers. |
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| Keywords: | Child physical abuse High risk Emotion recognition Gender Stress |
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