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- Title
Role-taking, Parallel Affective Responding, Other-oriented Responding, and Understanding Others' Feelings in Junior High School Students' Empathy.
- Authors
TOBARI, Maine; OYAMA, Tomoko; KIMURA, Ayano
- Abstract
This study examined the relationships among important components of empathy in first-year junior high school students. A questionnaire was administered to measure components of their empathy evoked by two film stimuli: role-taking, parallel affective responding, other-oriented responding, and understanding others' (i.e., the protagonists') feelings. Role-taking, parallel affective responding, and understanding others' feelings significantly influenced other-oriented responding in both boys and girls. The results suggest that parallel affective responding and understanding others' feelings could evoke or enhance other-oriented responding. In girls, role-taking also influenced parallel affective responding. The influence of role-taking on understanding others' feelings was not significant. Participants also were asked about the reasons for their decisions about the protagonists' feelings; their answers suggested that they mainly used situations as cues about the protagonists' feelings.
- Subjects
ROLE playing; EMPATHY; JUNIOR high school students; PROTAGONISTS (Persons); DECISION making
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Personality / Pasonariti Kenkyu, 2011, Vol 19, Issue 2, p122
- ISSN
1348-8406
- Publication type
Article