Children's Anger, Emotional Expressiveness, and Empathy: Relations with Parents' Empathy, Emotional Expressiveness, and Parenting Practices

Autor/inn/en	Strayer, Janet; Roberts, William
Titel	Children's Anger, Emotional Expressiveness, and Empathy: Relations with Parents' Empathy, Emotional Expressiveness, and Parenting Practices
Quelle	In: Social Development, 13 (2004) 2, S.229-254 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9507.2004.000265.x
Schlagwörter	Prosocial Behavior; Emotional Response; Parenting Styles; Child Rearing; Empathy; Psychological Patterns; Parent Child Relationship; Family (Sociological Unit); Predictor Variables; Age Differences; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Emotionales Verhalten; Kindererziehung; Empathie; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Familie; Prädiktor; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Korrelation
Abstract	In Roberts and Strayer (1996) we described how emotional factors were strongly related to children's empathy, which in turn strongly predicted prosocial behavior. This paper focuses on how these child emotional factors, assessed across methods and sources, related to parental factors (empathy, emotional expressiveness, encouragement of children's emotional expressiveness, warmth and control) for a subset of 50 two-parent families from our earlier sample. Parents reported on their emotional characteristics and parenting; children (5 to 13 years old; 42% girls) also described parenting practices. Children's age and parenting factors accounted for an average of 32% of the variance in child emotional factors, which, with role-taking, strongly predicted children's empathy. In contrast to earlier, less comprehensive studies, we found important paths between parents' and children's empathy, mediated by children's anger. These countervailing pathways largely neutralized each other, resulting in the low correlations usually seen when parents' and children's empathy are examined in isolation. Thus our findings are an important confirmation and extension of the theoretically expected link between parents' and children's empathy. (As Provided).
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