Britton Peter C, Fuendeling James M
Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA.
J Soc Psychol. 2005 Oct;145(5):519-30. doi: 10.3200/SOCP.145.5.519-530.
The authors examined the proposition that recollections of childhood attachments, parental bonds, or romantic attachments are related to M. H. Davis's (1983) cognitive and emotional components of empathy. Participants were 178 undergraduates who completed self-report questionnaires. Recollections of parental bonds and romantic attachments made both independent and conjoint contributions to Davis's components. Parental overprotection and romantic anxiety predicted personal distress; parental care and romantic anxiety predicted empathic concern; and romantic avoidance predicted fantasy. The findings suggested that attachment may be more likely to influence empathy negatively than positively, that the relation between attachment and empathy may be more emotional than cognitive, and that romantic attachments may be more related to empathy than recollections of parental bonds.
作者检验了这样一种观点，即童年依恋、亲子关系或浪漫依恋的回忆与M.H.戴维斯（1983年）提出的同理心的认知和情感成分有关。参与者为178名完成了自我报告问卷的本科生。亲子关系和浪漫依恋的回忆对戴维斯的成分既有独立贡献，也有联合贡献。父母的过度保护和浪漫焦虑预示着个人痛苦；父母的关爱和浪漫焦虑预示着同理心关怀；而浪漫回避预示着幻想。研究结果表明，依恋对同理心产生负面影响的可能性可能大于正面影响，依恋与同理心之间的关系可能更多是情感上的而非认知上的，并且浪漫依恋可能比亲子关系的回忆与同理心的关联更大。
