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Cognitions related to empathy in five- to eleven-year-old children.

In English

Författare

  • Hans Bengtsson
  • Lena Johnson

Summary, in English

Studied developmental changes in the conceptualization of empathy by testing and interviewing 16 kindergartners, 16 1st graders, and 16 4th graders. All age groups expected a child to empathize with liked peers more than with disliked peers. Whereas kindergartners expected emotional reactions to be equally strong in response to both types of peers, older Ss predicted weak and qualified empathic reactions to disliked peers. Taken in conjunction with the Ss' explanations of their emotion choices, this result suggests age differences with regard to the integration of separate items of information; few kindergartners knew how to control empathic arousal purely by means of thoughts. Mentalistic strategies used by older Ss to maximize or minimize empathic arousal are discussed.

Publiceringsår

1987

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1001-1012

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Child Development

Volym

58

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Psychology

Nyckelord

  • Empathy
  • Social cognition
  • social development
  • early and middle childhood

Aktiv

Published