Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors in Adolescents: An Investigation into Associations with Attachment and Empathy

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Attachment Security and Child's Empathy: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation (2012, background): “Mothers also rated their children’s empathy on an adapted version of Bryant’s (1982) Index of Empathy, which has previously been shown to have predictive validity (e.g., Thompson & Gullone, 2008).”
‘Queen of the world’: experiences of ‘at-risk’ young people participating in equine-assisted learning/therapy (2011, background): “It is argued that the ‘normal development of empathy has been proposed to be imperative to the healthy emotional and social functioning of youths’ (Thompson & Gullone, 2008, p. 124).”
A lifespan perspective on attachment and care for others: Empathy, altruism, and prosocial behavior (2016, background): “In a similar study, Thompson and Gullone (2008) found that 12- to 18-year-old adolescents reporting higher scores on a measure of secure attachment to parents (the parent scale of the revised IPPA; Gullone & Robinson, 2005) also reported being more empathic (using the Index of Empathy for Children…”
Empathy from infancy to adolescence: An attachment perspective on the development of individual differences (2017, background): “As a counterpoint to the findings related to aggression and bullying, Thompson and Gullone (2008) found that security on the IPPA was positively associated with Australian 12- to 18-year-olds’ self-reported empathy, which in turn predicted their prosocial behavior and humane treatment of animals.”