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Keijzer, Rineke; van der Rijst, Roeland; van Schooten, Erik; Admiraal, Wilfried – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Background: Mentors guide students in their challenges at school and in life. At-risk students in last-resort programs who are at a high risk of leaving school unqualified are especially in need of highly competent and adaptive mentors. This study therefore aimed to identify mentor qualities as perceived by at-risk students and their mentors that…
Descriptors: Mentors, At Risk Students, Student Needs, Interpersonal Relationship
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Rieffe, Carolien; O'Connor, Rachel; Bülow, Anne; Willems, Danique; Hull, Laura; Sedgewick, Felicity; Stockmann, Lex; Blijd-Hoogewys, Els – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Empathy evokes support for the person in distress, and thus strengthening social cohesion. The question is to what extent empathic reactions can be observed in autistic adolescents and autistic girls in particular, since there is evidence that they have better social skills than boys, which might hinder their recognition as autistic. We examined…
Descriptors: Empathy, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adolescents
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Ziermans, Tim; de Bruijn, Ymke; Dijkhuis, Renee; Staal, Wouter; Swaab, Hanna – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Reduced empathy and alexithymic traits are common across the autism spectrum, but it is unknown whether this is also true for intellectually advanced adults with autism spectrum disorder. The aim of this study was to examine whether college students with autism spectrum disorder experience difficulties with empathy and alexithymia, and whether…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Empathy, College Students
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Van Lissa, Caspar J.; Hawk, Skyler T.; Koot, Hans M.; Branje, Susan; Meeus, Wim H. J. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Empathy plays a key role in maintaining close relationships and promoting prosocial conflict resolution. However, research has not addressed the potential emotional cost of adolescents' high empathy, particularly when relationships are characterized by more frequent conflict. The present 6-year longitudinal study (N = 467) investigated whether…
Descriptors: Empathy, Parents, Adolescents, Parent Student Relationship
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De Leur, Tessa; Van Boxtel, Carla; Wilschut, Arie – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2017
Tasks which invite students to identify with historical actors and describe their perspectives are a common phenomenon in history education. The aim of this study is to explore the differences in students' answers when completing a writing task in first person ("imagine you are in the past") or in third person ("imagine someone in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, History Instruction, Empathy
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Konijn, Elly A.; Walma van der Molen, Juliette H.; van Nes, Sander – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study investigated whether emotions induced in TV-viewers (either as an emotional state or co-occurring with emotional involvement) would increase viewers' perception of realism in a fake documentary and affect the information value that viewers would attribute to its content. To that end, two experiments were conducted that manipulated (a)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Television, Mass Media Effects, Audience Response