title: "I Don't Care About What You Want!" The Relation Between Juvenile Delinquents' Responses to Social Problem Situations and Empathy in Secure Juvenile Institutions.
abstract: The present study examined the relation between juvenile delinquents' responses to social problem situations and empathy in secure juvenile institutions. The sample consisted of 79 delinquent boys (62%) and 49 delinquent girls (38%), aged 12 to 19 years. Results showed problems with accepting authority to be negatively related to both affective and cognitive empathy. Inadequate coping with competition was negatively related to cognitive empathy, whereas problems with receiving or giving help were negatively related to affective empathy. The central role of authority problems suggests that group workers could influence adolescents' empathy development by helping them to learn to cope with social problem situations.
authors.affiliation: 1 Maastricht University, The Netherlands.|2 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.|3 Zuyd University of applied Sciences, Heerlen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: E J E
authors.initials: EJE
authors.lastname: Heynen
authors.affiliation: 4 Professional University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: G H P
authors.initials: GHP
authors.lastname: van der Helm
authors.affiliation: 2 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: I B
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Wissink
authors.affiliation: 2 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: G J J M
authors.initials: GJJM
authors.lastname: Stams
authors.affiliation: 2 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.|3 Zuyd University of applied Sciences, Heerlen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: X M H
authors.initials: XMH
authors.lastname: Moonen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder; D002648:Child; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D057566:Self Report; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: empathy; juvenile delinquents; secure juvenile institutions; social problem situations