Child-rearing and children's empathy

Children's peer victimization, empathy, and emotional symptoms.

This study investigated the concurrent and longitudinal relations among children's peer victimization, empathy, and emotional symptoms. The sample consisted of 175 children (85 girls, mean age = 6.1 years) recruited from kindergartens in Switzerland and followed for 1 year (Time 2). Parents and teachers reported on the children's emotional symptoms, empathy, and victimization. Children reported...

The effectiveness of parent-child interaction therapy on executive functions and empathy in children with behavioral emotional disorders: Single review study

Abstract: Children with emotional-behavioral disorders suffer from disorders in various areas due to psychological trauma. , Considering the relationship between executive functions and empathy with parenting and interactive style, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of parent-child interaction therapy on executive functions and empathy of children with behavioral emotional ...

Children's Empathy 1 Children's Empathy and Role Taking: Child and Parental Factors, and Relations to Prosocial Behavior

Parents' use of inductive discipline: relations to children's empathy and prosocial behavior.

Relations between parents' discipline, children's empathic responses, and children's prosocial behavior were examined in order to evaluate Martin Hoffman's claim that children's empathy and empathy-based guilt mediate the socialization of children's prosocial behavior. 78 sixth and seventh graders (138-172 months in age), their mothers, and teachers completed multiple measures of Hoffman's cons...

Understanding children's emotional processes and behavioral strategies in the context of marital conflict.

Marital conflict is a distressing context in which children must regulate their emotion and behavior; however, the associations between the multidimensionality of conflict and children's regulatory processes need to be examined. The current study examined differences in children's (N = 207, mean age = 8.02 years) emotions (mad, sad, scared, and happy) and behavioral strategies to regulate confl...