Research Centre Adolescent Development, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Aggress Behav. 2012 Sep-Oct;38(5):368-77. doi: 10.1002/ab.21435. Epub 2012 Jul 2.
The present two-wave longitudinal study addressed the role of affective empathy and parental support in aggressive and delinquent behavior in a sample of 323 adolescents (158 boys, 165 girls). Self-report questionnaires were used to assess affective empathy, perceived support from parents, delinquency, and aggression. Guided by theories on children's differential susceptibility to socialization, we expected adolescents with different levels of empathy to vary in their responsiveness to parental support. In agreement with our hypothesis, empathy moderated the relation of perceived parental support with aggressive and delinquent behavior. Controlling for the effect of gender and for the stability of aggression and delinquency, higher perceived parental support was predictive of lower levels of aggression at age 15, but only for adolescents high in empathy. Remarkably, adolescents low in empathy not only appeared to benefit less from parental support, but even showed more aggression and delinquency at age 15 when they perceived their parents to be more supportive at age 14.
本项两波纵向研究在 323 名青少年（158 名男生，165 名女生）样本中探讨了情感同理心和父母支持在攻击和犯罪行为中的作用。采用自陈式问卷评估情感同理心、父母感知支持、犯罪行为和攻击行为。根据儿童对社会化的不同敏感性理论，我们预计同理心水平不同的青少年对父母支持的反应也会有所不同。与我们的假设一致，同理心调节了感知到的父母支持与攻击和犯罪行为的关系。在控制性别效应以及攻击和犯罪行为的稳定性的基础上，较高的感知父母支持与 15 岁时较低的攻击性相关，但仅对同理心较高的青少年而言。值得注意的是，同理心较低的青少年不仅似乎较少受益于父母的支持，而且当他们感知到父母在 14 岁时更支持他们时，在 15 岁时表现出更多的攻击和犯罪行为。
