ArticleEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2017
Relational antecedents and social implications of the emotion of empathy: Evidence from three studies.
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- Intersections Among Attachment, Empathy and Emotion Regulation in Middle Childhood.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2026Article
- Attachment and the Development of Prosocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Attachment and the Development of Moral Emotions in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Children's emerging receptive, positive orientation toward their parents in the network of early attachment relationships.Attachment & human development · 2021Article
- Socioemotional Mechanisms of Children's Differential Response to the Effects of Maternal Sensitivity on Child Adjustment.Parenting, science and practice · 2021Article
- Empathic responding and hippocampal volume in young children.Developmental psychology · 2019Article
- Study Protocol for the Preschooler Regulation of Emotional Stress (PRES) Procedure.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Attachment Style and Empathy in Late children, Adolescents, and Adults: Meta-analytic Review.International journal of psychological researchReview
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Abstract
Despite emotion researchers' strong interest in empathy and its implications for prosocial functioning, surprisingly few studies have examined parent-child attachment as a context for early origins of empathy in young children. Consequently, empirical evidence on links among children's attachment, empathy, and prosociality is thin and inconsistent. We examined such links in 2 longitudinal studies of community families (Family Study, N = 101 mothers, fathers, and children, 14 to 80 months; Parent-Child Study, mothers and children, N = 108, 15 to 45 months) and a study of low-income, diverse mothers and toddlers (Play Study, N = 186, 30 months). Children's security was assessed in Strange Situation in infancy and rated by observers and mothers using Attachment Q-Set at toddler age. Children's empathy was observed in scripted probes that involved parental simulated distress. Children's prosociality was rated by parents (Family Study, Play Study). Security with mothers related to higher empathy. For mother- and father-child dyads, security moderated the path from empathy to prosociality. For insecure children, but not secure ones, variations in empathy related to prosociality. Insecure and unempathic children were particularly low in prosociality. (PsycINFO Database Record
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