Attachment Security and Child's Empathy: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation

Autor/inn/en	Panfile, Tia M.; Laible, Deborah J.
Titel	Attachment Security and Child's Empathy: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation
Quelle	In: Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 58 (2012) 1, S.1-21, Artikel 1 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-930X
Schlagwörter	Prosocial Behavior; Empathy; Emotional Development; Individual Differences; Questionnaires; Attachment Behavior; Prediction; Children; Mothers; Influences; Cognitive Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Empathie; Gefühlsbildung; Individueller Unterschied; Fragebogen; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Vorhersage; Child; Kind; Kinder; Mother; Mutter; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; Kognitive Entwicklung
Abstract	The current study examined the influence of multiple factors on individual differences in empathy; namely, attachment, negative emotionality, and emotion regulation. A total of 63 mothers completed the Attachment Q-set and questionnaires about their children's empathy, negative emotionality, and emotion regulation when children were 3 years old. Prosocial behavior was observed during a baby-cry procedure. Results of path analyses indicated that a model with attachment predicting empathy through the mediation of emotion regulation was the best fit for the data. Specifically, more-secure children were rated higher in emotion regulation and, consequently, higher in empathy. Furthermore, the optimal model was used to test empathy as a predictor of observed prosocial behavior. Here, children higher in empathy were observed to behave more prosocially. Overall, the results support the notion that more-secure children are more empathic because they are better emotion regulators. (Contains 3 figures, 1 footnote and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10