Changes in empathy-related cry responding as a function of time: A time course study of adult's responses to infant crying.
Infant Behav Dev
; 42: 45-59, 2016 Feb.
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ABSTRACT
Describing temporal relations between perceptual and emotional elements underlying responses to infant crying is important to our understanding of sensitive parenting. Prior research on adults' responses to infant crying has mostly relied on playback and snapshot approaches to obtaining recall of responses following exposure to relatively short cry stimuli. This study documented continuous temporal relations in the perception of the infant's distress and affect-related processes in response to a 4-min-long bout of crying. Three visual-analog slider scales were used to collect 90 participants' real-time responses on perceived aversiveness of the cry, empathic concern for the infant, and personal distress elicited by the cry, respectively. The results highlighted a moderating role of empathic concern at certain second in the relation between personal distress and empathic concern at the following second. In addition, personal distress moderated the relation between concurrent perceived aversiveness and empathic concern. The findings carry potentially important implications for cognitive and emotional regulation in adaptive parenting.
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01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Responsabilidad Parental
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Cuidadores
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Llanto
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Empatía
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Infant Behav Dev
Año:
2016
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Article