Department of Human Development and Family Studies.
Department of Psychology.
J Fam Psychol. 2020 Oct;34(7):825-835. doi: 10.1037/fam0000745. Epub 2020 Jun 18.
In the present article, we investigated the contributions of maternal and paternal empathy to child socioemotional competence both directly and indirectly through parents' emotion socialization practices using data from two longitudinal studies: Study 1 ( = 122, 61 girls, age = 33 months) and Study 2 ( = 60, 31 girls; age = 27 months). Results indicated that parental empathy had an indirect effect on children's positive peer relations (Study 1 and Study 2) via more supportive reactions to children's negative emotions. No indirect effects of parental empathy emerged in the models examining parents' nonsupportive reactions to children's emotions, although parental empathy showed a direct association with greater child empathy (Study 2). Moreover, paths composing indirect and direct effects did not significantly differ as a function of parent gender. The findings suggest that mothers' and fathers' dispositional empathy contribute in similar ways to young children's socioemotional competence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
在本文中，我们使用来自两项纵向研究的数据，直接以及间接地通过父母的情绪社会化实践，研究了母亲和父亲的同理心对孩子社会情绪能力的贡献：研究 1（n = 122，61 名女孩，年龄=33 个月）和研究 2（n = 60，31 名女孩；年龄=27 个月）。结果表明，父母的同理心通过对孩子负面情绪的更支持性反应，对孩子的积极同伴关系产生间接影响（研究 1 和研究 2）。在考察父母对孩子情绪的不支持反应的模型中，没有出现父母同理心的间接影响，尽管父母同理心与更大的孩子同理心直接相关（研究 2）。此外，构成间接和直接影响的路径在父母性别上没有显著差异。研究结果表明，母亲和父亲的特质同理心以相似的方式促进幼儿的社会情绪能力。
