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- Title
THE ROLE OF EMPATHY IN PARENTING STRATEGY CHOICES.
- Authors
Brems, Christiane; Sohl, Marie A.
- Abstract
The article presents the results of a study exploring the relationship between empathy and parenting strategy choices. It was hypothesized that empathic individuals respond with the same positive strategies in a given situation without being affected by descriptions of a child's history or gender. This study revealed that child behavior history is the best predictor of parenting strategy choices, followed by participant empathy. Results indicated that the good child received more reward and talking strategies, whereas the acting-out child received more negative and ignoring interventions. Empathy was negatively related to the use of negative and ignoring parenting strategies. These results suggest that empathy is an important parenting skill that is likely to result in more appropriate parenting choices. It is opined that parents form behavioral attributions about children when presented with a behavioral history. They are more likely to endorse inappropriate strategies for children for whom they had received information about past negative behavior than for children with positive behavior histories.
- Subjects
SOCIAL psychology; PARENTING; PARENT-child relationships; EMPATHY; FAMILY relations; SEX differences (Biology)
- Publication
Family Relations, 1995, Vol 44, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
0197-6664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/584808