Associations between empathy, inhibitory control, and physical aggression in toddlerhood.

ABSTRACT: Impaired empathy has been associated with aggression in children, adolescents and adults, but results have been contradictory for the preschool period. Impaired inhibitory control also increases the risk of aggression, and possibly moderates empathy-aggression associations. The current study investigated whether empathy and inhibitory control are associated with aggression in toddlerhood. Furthermore, we aimed to clarify the role of inhibitory control in empathy and aggression, specifically, whether inhibitory control moderates the association between empathy and aggression. During a laboratory visit at age 30 months (N = 103), maternal reports of physical aggression were obtained and child inhibitory control was examined using a gift delay task. Empathy was examined by obtaining behaviora

SUBMITTER: Noten MMPG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7496157 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature