Moderating Effect of Emotional Parent-child Closeness on Relation between Psychopath and Empathy

Fathul Lubabin Nuqul

2018

Abstract

Psychopathic personalities are considered to have contributed in the act which bears to hurt other people. Several studies have consistently found a lack of empathy characterizes psychopaths. On the other hand, the relationship between parents and children that positively correlated with empathy the child. This research aims to look at the role of parent-child closeness as a moderator in the relationship between psychopathic personalities with empathy. This research involves 166 high school students who complete a psychopathic personality scale, quality of empathy scale and emotional relationship between child parents. The results showed that the psychopath shows influence negatively to empathy. So also with the quality of children's emotional relationship, parents have a positive influence of empathy. However, the emotional relationship of the child-parent relationship changes between psychopathic and empathy

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nuqul F. (2018). Moderating Effect of Emotional Parent-child Closeness on Relation between Psychopath and Empathy.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1356-1362. DOI: 10.5220/0009927613561362

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Fathul Lubabin Nuqul},
title={Moderating Effect of Emotional Parent-child Closeness on Relation between Psychopath and Empathy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1356-1362},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009927613561362},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Moderating Effect of Emotional Parent-child Closeness on Relation between Psychopath and Empathy
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Nuqul F.
PY - 2018
SP - 1356
EP - 1362
DO - 10.5220/0009927613561362