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- Title
Actor–Partner Interdependence of Compassion toward Others with Qualities of Marital Relationship and Parent–Child Relationships in Chinese Families.
- Authors
Jiang, Yongqiang; Lin, Xiuyun; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Chi, Peilian; Wu, Qinglu
- Abstract
Considering the nature of compassion and cultural and times characteristics of Chinese families, individuals' general dispositional compassion toward others may have potential benefits for relationship qualities in Chinese families. In this study, we explored how men's and women's compassion related to their own (actor effects) and the partners' (partner effects) marital relationship and parent–child relationships, respectively, using the Actor–Partner Interdependent Model. Participants were from a cross‐sectional sample of 534 Chinese heterosexual married couples (females' mean age = 37.20, SD = 4.28; males' mean age = 40.29, SD = 5.39) whose biological children were pupils (mean age = 9.28, SD = 1.11). Results revealed that: (a) within marital relationships, couple members' actor effects and partner effects were found both significant; but (b) within parent–child relationships, couple members' actor effects were significant, whereas only mothers' partner effect of compassion on father–child relationship was significant. These findings support the benefits of couple members' individual compassion with respect to family relationship quality in contemporary China. Limitations, implications, and future directions are discussed.
- Subjects
CHINA; MARRIAGE; CHINESE people; FATHER-child relationship; HETEROSEXUALS; MATHEMATICAL models; PSYCHOLOGY of men; PARENT-child relationships; PSYCHOLOGY; RESPECT; PSYCHOLOGY of Spouses; PSYCHOLOGY of women; COMPASSION; FAMILY relations; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Family Process, 2020, Vol 59, Issue 2, p740
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/famp.12436