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Perspective taking, empathic concern, agreeableness, and parental support: Transactional associations across adolescence.
Van Heel, Martijn; Bijttebier, Patricia; Colpin, Hilde; Goossens, Luc; Van Den Noortgate, Wim; Verschueren, Karine; Van Leeuwen, Karla.
Afiliação
  • Van Heel M; KU Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: martijn.vanheel@kuleuven.be.
  • Bijttebier P; KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • Colpin H; KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • Goossens L; KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • Van Den Noortgate W; KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • Verschueren K; KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • Van Leeuwen K; KU Leuven, Belgium.
J Adolesc ; 85: 21-31, 2020 12.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33035916
ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION:

Empathy consists of a cognitive and an affective component, of which it is thought that there are gender differences. Previous studies also suggest that maternal and paternal support play a more prominent role in the development of an adolescent's affective and cognitive empathy, respectively. Besides the environmental factor, that is parenting, adolescent personality, and more specifically, agreeableness, is closely linked to both empathy and support, but this interplay was not extensively investigated longitudinally. The present study investigated the transactional associations among parental support, adolescent agreeableness, and adolescent empathy. More specifically, we examined (a) whether maternal/paternal support is differentially associated with cognitive/affective empathy, while taking into account adolescent agreeableness and (b) whether adolescent agreeableness still predicts empathy, while taking into account parental support.

METHODS:

Data from 993 Belgian adolescents (MageT1 = 13.96 years; [12.6-18.4]) and their parents across four time points were used in a random intercept cross-lagged panel model.

RESULTS:

At the between-person level, maternal support was associated with affective, but not cognitive empathy, whereas agreeableness was associated with maternal and paternal support as well as with both types of empathy. At the within-person level, affective empathy predicted cognitive empathy one wave later.

CONCLUSIONS:

At a population level, agreeableness and support are both important in adolescent empathy development with limited evidence for the differential roles of mothers and fathers. Within participants, affective empathy, and not parental support or agreeableness, predicted cognitive empathy.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Relações Pais-Filho / Desenvolvimento do Adolescente / Empatia Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Adolescent / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Relações Pais-Filho / Desenvolvimento do Adolescente / Empatia Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Adolescent / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article