TY - JOUR
T1 - Prediction of children's empathy-related responding from their effortful control and parents' expressivity
AU - Valiente, Carlos
AU - Eisenberg, Nancy
AU - Fabes, Richard
AU - Shepard, Stephanie A.
AU - Cumberland, Amanda
AU - Losoya, Sandra
PY - 2004/11
Y1 - 2004/11
N2 - In this study, the linear and interactive relations of children's effortful control and parents' emotional expressivity to children's empathy-related responses were examined. Participants were 214 children, 4.5 to 8 years old. Children's effortful control was negatively related to their personal distress and was positively related to their sympathy. Parents' positive expressivity was marginally negatively related to children's personal distress and was marginally positively related to children's dispositional sympathy. Parents' negative expressivity was positively related to children's personal distress, but primarily at high levels of children's effortful control. Moreover, parents' negative expressivity was negatively related to children's situational sympathy at low levels of effortful control but was positively related to children's dispositional sympathy at high levels of effortful control. There were also quadratic relations between the measures of parents' expressivity and children's empathy-related responses.
AB - In this study, the linear and interactive relations of children's effortful control and parents' emotional expressivity to children's empathy-related responses were examined. Participants were 214 children, 4.5 to 8 years old. Children's effortful control was negatively related to their personal distress and was positively related to their sympathy. Parents' positive expressivity was marginally negatively related to children's personal distress and was marginally positively related to children's dispositional sympathy. Parents' negative expressivity was positively related to children's personal distress, but primarily at high levels of children's effortful control. Moreover, parents' negative expressivity was negatively related to children's situational sympathy at low levels of effortful control but was positively related to children's dispositional sympathy at high levels of effortful control. There were also quadratic relations between the measures of parents' expressivity and children's empathy-related responses.
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U2 - 10.1037/0012-1649.40.6.911
DO - 10.1037/0012-1649.40.6.911
M3 - Article
C2 - 15535747
AN - SCOPUS:7544232445
SN - 0012-1649
VL - 40
SP - 911
EP - 926
JO - Developmental psychology
JF - Developmental psychology
IS - 6
ER -