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Empathetic Concern in Emerging Adolescents: The Role of Theory of Mind and Gender Roles
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Andrews, Katherine; Lariccia, Liliana; Talwar, Victoria; Bosacki, Sandra – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
The current study examined the roles of gender, and gender-role orientation in young adolescents' empathetic concern. In addition, this study aimed to explore the contribution of Theory of Mind in participants' empathetic concern. Finally, this study examined whether gender and gender-role orientation were implicated in emerging adolescents'…
Descriptors: Empathy, Sex Role, Theory of Mind, Gender Differences
Perspective Taking and Empathic Concern in Adolescence: Gender Differences in Developmental Changes
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Van der Graaff, Jolien; Branje, Susan; De Wied, Minet; Hawk, Skyler; Van Lier, Pol; Meeus, Wim – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Empathy is an important social skill and is believed to play an essential role in moral development (Hoffman, 2000). In the present longitudinal study, the authors investigated adolescents' development of perspective taking and empathic concern from age 13 to 18 years (mean age at Wave 1 = 13 years, SD = 0.46) and examined its association with…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Empathy, Adolescents, Gender Differences
The Longitudinal Interplay of Affective and Cognitive Empathy within and between Adolescents and Mothers
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van Lissa, Caspar J.; Hawk, Skyler T.; de Wied, Minet; Koot, Hans M.; van Lier, Pol; Meeus, Wim – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This 4-year study examined longitudinal interplays between adolescents' and mothers' self-reported empathic concern (EC) and perspective taking (PT). We investigated (a) whether adolescents' EC predicted rank-order change in their PT over time, or vice versa; (b) whether mothers' empathy predicted relative increases in adolescents' empathy; (c)…
Descriptors: Empathy, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Prediction
Associations among Pubertal Development, Empathic Ability, and Neural Responses While Witnessing Peer Rejection in Adolescence
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Masten, Carrie L.; Eisenberger, Naomi I.; Pfeifer, Jennifer H.; Colich, Natalie L.; Dapretto, Mirella – Child Development, 2013
Links among concurrent and longitudinal changes in pubertal development and empathic ability from ages 10 to 13 and neural responses while witnessing peer rejection at age 13 were examined in 16 participants. More advanced pubertal development at age 13, and greater longitudinal increases in pubertal development, related to increased activity in…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Rejection (Psychology), Peer Relationship, Puberty
The Structure of Empathy: A Multidimensional Scaling Approach.
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Jegerski, Jane A.; Upshaw, Harry S. – 1984
Empathy, a basis for altruistic motivation, is viewed as a developmental process by Hoffman and others. Current measures of empathy, such as the Davis Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), have been analyzed by exploratory factor analytic methods which do not allow for the testing of a developmental model of the simplex form. This study was…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Stages, Empathy, Factor Structure
The Teaching of Empathy for High School and College Students: Testing Rogerian Methods with the Interpersonal Reactivity Index.
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Hatcher, Sherry L.; And Others – Adolescence, 1994
A readiness for effective empathy training develops during the same time period that secure abstract thought, augmented moral development, and the ability to introspect appear--during the college years. College females initially showed higher empathy scores, but both genders were equally teachable, being most effectively taught during college…
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Students, Developmental Stages, Educational Strategies