Relaciones entre agresión y empatía parental: efectos sobre las mismas variables en jóvenes infractores

Jorge Emiro Restrepo; Sergio Andrés Acosta-Tobón; Anyerson Stiths Gómez-Tabares

doi:10.47741/17943108.584

Authors

Jorge Emiro Restrepo Antioquia Institute of Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8790-7454 (unauthenticated)
Sergio Andrés Acosta-Tobón Instituto Psicoeducativo de Colombia - IPSICOL https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7042-7435 (unauthenticated)
Anyerson Stiths Gómez-Tabares Universidad Católica Luis Amigó https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7389-3178 (unauthenticated)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47741/17943108.584

Keywords:

Violence, juvenile delinquency, parents, interpersonal relationships, family

Abstract

This study examined the connection between parental aggression and empathy, and how these factors influence juvenile offenders. Fathers showed more physical aggression and hostility, while mothers showed more verbal aggression. Mothers' verbal aggression was related to higher aggression in other areas and lower empathic concern. In contrast, fathers' aggression was more physical than verbal, with no correlation to empathy. The research concludes that parental aggression predicts young offenders' aggression, with mothers' verbal aggression and fathers' physical aggression being significant predictors. However, parental empathy did not significantly predict youth empathy. In particular, mothers' anger was inversely related to their empathic concern. Fathers' physical aggression and anger were interrelated, but unrelated to empathy.

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Author Biographies

Jorge Emiro Restrepo, Antioquia Institute of Technology

Professor at the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences of the Tecnológico de Antioquia, Medellín. Director of the OBSERVATOS research group at the same faculty. Doctorate and master's degree in neuropsychology from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Areas of study: psychopathology, health psychology.
Sergio Andrés Acosta-Tobón, Instituto Psicoeducativo de Colombia - IPSICOL

Psychologist, specialist in Legal Psychology, Master's degree in Psychology, PhD in Psychology and Ibero-American postdoctoral degree in new challenges in public governance. Research professor at the University Institution of Envigado in Legal and Forensic Psychology, Forensic Psychopathology, Criminology, Criminal Profiling. Member of the research group in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of San Buenaventura and the Antioquia IU Technological Observatory.

Director of the Instituto Psicoeducativo de Colombia (IPSICOL), responsible for non-custodial and custodial programmes within the Juvenile Justice System in Bogotá, Medellín, Rionegro, Turbo and Montería (Colombia). Member of the Governing Board of the Antioquia Anti-Drug School of the Government of Antioquia. Magistrate of the Departmental Court of Ethics and Bioethics of Psychology of the Northwest of the Colombian College of Psychologists.
Anyerson Stiths Gómez-Tabares, Universidad Católica Luis Amigó

Doctorate in Philosophy and Doctorate (c) in Psychology. Professor at Luis Amigó Catholic University, Medellín, Colombia. anyerspn.gomezta@amigo.edu.co

Research topics: moral disengagement, psychopathy, prosocial and antisocial behaviour, school bullying.

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