title: The parental empathy measure: a new approach to assessing child maltreatment risk.
abstract: A new operational definition of parental empathy and a new instrument, the Parental Empathy Measure (PEM), are introduced. With a sample of 103 parents (50 registered maltreating, 32 matched distressed, and 21 matched controls), the PEM demonstrated good internal consistency, very good interrater reliability, good construct validity, and very good concurrent validity.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of New England.
authors.forename: Kym L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Kilpatrick
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004493:Education; D004645:Empathy; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D015588:Observer Variation; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment