TY - JOUR
T1 - The relations of parental warmth and positive expressiveness to children's empathy-related responding and social functioning
T2 - A longitudinal study
AU - Zhou, Qing
AU - Eisenberg, Nancy
AU - Losoya, Sandra
AU - Fabes, Richard
AU - Reiser, Mark
AU - Guthrie, Ivanna K.
AU - Murphy, Bridget C.
AU - Cumberland, Amanda J.
AU - Shepard, Stephanie A.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - This study examined the concurrent and cross-time relations of parental observed warmth and positive expressivity to children's situational facial and self-reported empathic responding, social competence, and externalizing problems in a sample of 180 elementary school children. Data was collected when the children were in second to fifth grades (age: M = 112.8 months), and again 2 years later. Cross-sectional and longitudinal structural equation models supported the hypothesis that parents' (mostly mothers') positive expressivity mediated the relation between parental warmth and children's empathy, and children's empathy mediated the relation between parental positive expressivity and children's social functioning. These relations persisted after controlling for prior levels of parenting and child characteristics. Moreover, concurrent and cross-time consistencies were found on measures of parenting, children's situational empathic responding, and social functioning.
AB - This study examined the concurrent and cross-time relations of parental observed warmth and positive expressivity to children's situational facial and self-reported empathic responding, social competence, and externalizing problems in a sample of 180 elementary school children. Data was collected when the children were in second to fifth grades (age: M = 112.8 months), and again 2 years later. Cross-sectional and longitudinal structural equation models supported the hypothesis that parents' (mostly mothers') positive expressivity mediated the relation between parental warmth and children's empathy, and children's empathy mediated the relation between parental positive expressivity and children's social functioning. These relations persisted after controlling for prior levels of parenting and child characteristics. Moreover, concurrent and cross-time consistencies were found on measures of parenting, children's situational empathic responding, and social functioning.
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-8624.00446
DO - 10.1111/1467-8624.00446
M3 - Review article
C2 - 12038559
AN - SCOPUS:0036581692
SN - 0009-3920
VL - 73
SP - 893
EP - 915
JO - Child development
JF - Child development
IS - 3
ER -