Decreased Empathy Response to Other’s Pain in Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

We aimed to investigate pain empathy ability and self-reported empathy among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Twenty-four parents of children with ASD and 26 parents of typically developing children completed the Empathy Quotient (EQ) self-report scale and responded to painful or neutral images during an empathy-for-pain paradigm test. Parents of children with ASD had lower EQ scores, lower accuracy, and longer reaction time (RT) for pain empathy task response (all p

Source: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease - June 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research