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The Relation Between Emotionality and Empathy-related Responses in Japanese Young Children

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: The relation between emotionality assessed by laboratory observation in infancy and empathy-related responses at 3 years was examined.Each emotionality of Fear, Anger, and Pleasure were assessed at 2 years earlier.Empathy-related responses were assessed with three measures: facial and ver• bal reactions to distress situation (sympathy and personal distress) ; prosocial response to doll play; maternal reports of dispositional empathy.The results were as follows: (1) tendency to experience fear predicted later sympathetic behavior; (2) anger emotionality was positively related to personal distress;(3) positive emotionality predicted later sympathetic behavior.These results were discussed in terms of children's regulation of emotion and behavior.

Source: Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (Hokkaido University)

Authors: Nobuko Hoshi, Emiko Kusanagi, Shing-Jen Chen, Yoshinobu Takahashi

Language: English

Topic: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W101458047

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