The Relations of Parental Characteristics and Practices to Children's Vicarious Emotional Responding

摘要: We examined the relation of parental empathy-related characteristics and emotion-related child-rearing practices to third sixth graders' vicarious emotional responding. Children's heart rate, skin conductance, facial, self-reported reactions a sympathy-inducing film were assessed, as their dispositional sympathy, empathy, self-monitoring. Parental sympathy was positively related low levels personal distress in same-sex children and, for both parents, with sons' or empathy. emphasis on problem-focused coping strategies when sons anxious correlated indexes situational sympathy. Same-sex restrictiveness regard control inappropriate, hurtful displays associated daughters' whereas maternal emotions that are unlikely hurt others nonverbal self reports distress. child's own negative emotion children's