caa a22 4500 475739329 CHVBK 20180406123455.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005162526769 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005162526769 Differences in Empathy Between Offender and Nonoffender Youth [Elektronische Daten] [Connee Bush, Ronald Mullis, Ann Mullis] The purpose of this study was to examine differences in empathy between offender and nonoffender youth. Seventy-six male and 33 female juvenile offenders between the ages of 12 and 18 years and 33 male and 33 female nonoffenders between the ages of 15 and 19 years comprised the samples for this study. Measures of empathy, altruism, and social support were administered to all participants and then the participants were analyzed for status group differences. Only 1 dimension of empathy, emotional tone, was found to be significantly different based on group status. Gender differences were found for both status groups for another dimension of empathy, personal distress. Among offender and nonoffender youth, females yielded higher scores in personal distress than did males. Emotional tone and family structure were found to be the most predictive variables of offender status. Findings were discussed based on previous research and implications for interventions were addressed. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 Bush Connee Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Bureau of Research and Data, Tallahassee, Florida aut Mullis Ronald Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida aut Mullis Ann Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University, Talahassee, Florida aut Journal of Youth and Adolescence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 29/4(2000-08-01), 467-478 0047-2891 29:4<467 2000 29 10964 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005162526769 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005162526769 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bush Connee Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Bureau of Research and Data, Tallahassee, Florida aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mullis Ronald Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mullis Ann Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University, Talahassee, Florida aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Youth and Adolescence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 29/4(2000-08-01), 467-478 0047-2891 29:4<467 2000 29 10964 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer