Physiological Regulation and Fearfulness as Predictors of Young Children's Empathy-Related Reactions

Autor/inn/en	Liew, Jeffrey; Eisenberg, Nancy; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Eggum, Natalie D.; Haugen, R. G.; Kupfer, Anne; Reiser, Mark R.; Smith, Cynthia L.; Lemery-Chalfant, Kathryn; Baham, Melinda E.
Titel	Physiological Regulation and Fearfulness as Predictors of Young Children's Empathy-Related Reactions
Quelle	In: Social Development, 20 (2011) 1, S.111-134 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0961-205X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9507.2010.00575.x
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Parent Child Relationship; Empathy; Attachment Behavior; Physiology; Predictor Variables; Emotional Response; Correlation; Psychological Patterns; Fear; Age Differences; Individual Differences; Emotional Disturbances + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Empathie; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Physiologie; Prädiktor; Emotionales Verhalten; Korrelation; Furcht; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Individueller Unterschied; Gefühlsstörung
Abstract	Indices of physiological regulation (i.e., resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA] and RSA suppression) and observed fearfulness were tested as predictors of empathy-related reactions to an unfamiliar person's simulated distress within and across 18 (T1, N = 247) and 30 (T2, N = 216) months of age. Controlling for T1 helping, high RSA suppression and low fearfulness at T1 predicted T2 helping. In a structural model, empathic concern was marginally positively related to resting RSA at both assessments whereas personal distress was related to RSA suppression within time (marginally positively at T1 and significantly negatively at T2). Fearfulness was associated with self-oriented, distress-related reactions within time. Comfort seeking (an index of personal distress) declined in mean level with age whereas helping increased, and both behaviors exhibited differential continuity (as did resting RSA). Individual, as well as developmental, differences in the types of reactions that young children exhibit when witnessing others' suffering and distress were discussed. (Contains 4 tables, 1 figure and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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