INVEST Research Flagship, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Child Dev. 2023 Jul-Aug;94(4):905-921. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13907. Epub 2023 Feb 15.
Anti-bullying interventions often assume that knowing how it feels to be bullied increases empathy for victims. However, longitudinal research on actual experiences of bullying and empathy is lacking. This study investigated whether within-person changes in victimization predicted changes in empathy over 1 year using random-intercept cross-lagged panel models. Self- and peer-reported victimization, and cognitive and affective empathy for victims were measured in a sample of 15,713 Finnish youth (M = 13.23, SD = 2.01, 51.6% female; 92.5% had Finnish-speaking parents; data was collected in 2007-2009 when information about participants' race/ethnicity was not available due to ethical guidelines for the protection of personal information). Results indicated small, positive longitudinal associations from victimization to cognitive empathy. Implications for empathy-raising interventions are discussed.
反欺凌干预措施通常假定，了解被欺凌的感觉会增加对受害者的同理心。然而，关于实际欺凌经历和同理心的纵向研究却很缺乏。本研究使用随机截距交叉滞后面板模型，调查了个体内部的受害变化是否能预测 1 年内同理心的变化。在一个由 15713 名芬兰青少年组成的样本中（M=13.23，SD=2.01，51.6%为女性；92.5%的父母为芬兰语；由于保护个人信息的伦理准则，2007-2009 年收集数据时无法获得有关参与者种族/族裔的信息），测量了自我和同伴报告的受害情况，以及对受害者的认知和情感同理心。结果表明，从受害到认知同理心存在着较小的正向纵向关联。还讨论了提高同理心的干预措施的意义。
