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- Positive experiences and victimization in childhood and youth : relationship with empathy in inmates and in the normative populationPublication . Guarda, Renata Sofia Outeiro; Almeida, TelmaBackground: Positive childhood experiences help to develop resilience and better support adverse experiences throughout life. Childhood trauma is usually associated with the various types of abuse that are associated with low empathy in adulthood. People with low empathy tend to be more aggressive, violent, and conflicted with others. Objectives: Adapt the BCEs to the Portuguese population. To analyze the relationship between positive childhood experiences and childhood trauma. To verify the relationship between positive childhood experiences, childhood trauma, and empathy in adulthood by comparing the normative population and prisoners. Participants: The study consists of two samples: one with 1886 Portuguese adults (1475 women and 411 men) between 18 and 91 years old (M = 36.36, SD = 13.66); and another with 244, where 123 (100 women and 23 men) between 18 and 67 years old (M = 34.28, SD = 11.902) years belong to the normative population and 119 are male prisoners between 18 and 73 years old (M = 36.97, SD = 11.090). Method: The normative population responded to an online protocol and the prison population responded to a paper protocol. The protocol consisted of a sociodemographic questionnaire, Scale of Benevolent Childhood Experiences (BCEs), Child Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), and Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). Results: The results show that having a few positive experiences in childhood is related to the experience of more trauma in childhood and/or youth. Positive childhood experiences and infantile trauma predict empathy for prisoners. Conclusion: The BCEs are a good instrument to assess the presence of positive experiences in childhood and that childhood trauma is present in both samples. Positive childhood experiences and childhood trauma predicts empathy in adulthood.