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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