Empathy in Children: Some Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

Feshbach, Norma Deitch

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“…Current conceptualizations of empathy integrate both affective and cognitive components. Feshbach (1975), for example, defines empathy as a "shared emotional response between an observer and a stimulus person." She suggests that empathic responsiveness requires three interrelated skills or capacities: (a) the cognitive ability to take another person's perspective, (b) the cognitive ability to accurately recognize and discriminate another person's affective experience, and (c) the affective ability to personally experience a range of emotions (since empathy involves sharing another person's emotional experience).…”

Section: Empathy: a Moral Emotional Processmentioning

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Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior

Tangney

Stuewig

Mashek

2007

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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Moral emotions represent a key element of our human moral apparatus, influencing the link between moral standards and moral behavior. This chapter reviews current theory and research on moral emotions. We first focus on a triad of negatively valenced "self-conscious" emotionsshame, guilt, and embarrassment. As in previous decades, much research remains focused on shame and guilt. We review current thinking on the distinction between shame and guilt, and the relative advantages and disadvantages of these two moral emotions. Several new areas of research are highlighted: research on the domain-specific phenomenon of body shame, styles of coping with shame, psychobiological aspects of shame, the link between childhood abuse and later proneness to shame, and the phenomena of vicarious or "collective" experiences of shame and guilt. In recent years, the concept of moral emotions has been expanded to include several positive emotions-elevation, gratitude, and the sometimes morally relevant experience of pride. Finally, we discuss briefly a morally relevant emotional process-other-oriented empathy. Keywordsshame; guilt; pride; elevation; gratitude OVERVIEWWhat confluence of factors foster a moral life lived to the benefit of self and others? This review summarizes current theory and research on moral emotions, offering a framework for thinking about the ways in which morally relevant emotions may moderate the link between moral standards and moral decisions, and ultimately moral behavior.Living a moral, constructive life is defined by a weighted sum of countless individual, morally relevant behaviors enacted day in and day out (plus an occasional particularly selfdefining moment). As imperfect human beings, however, our behavior does not always bear a one-to-one correspondence to our moral standards.Many potential explanations exist for the discrepancy between behavioral decisions (intentions) and actual behavior in both moral and nonmoral domains. Historically, much social psychological theory and research was devoted to understanding the imperfect link between intentions (e.g., moral decisions) and behavior. Field theory, the very foundation of social psychology, highlights the variability of individual behavior as a function of

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Section: Empathy: a Moral Emotional Processmentioning

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“…First, empathic reactions to others' distress often elicit feelings of concern for the distressed other (Feshbach 1975). Second, such empathic concern often prompts behavior aimed at helping the distressed other (Batson 1991, Eisenberg & Miller 1987, Feshbach 1987.…”

Section: Empathy: a Moral Emotional Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior

Tangney

Stuewig

Mashek

2007

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

2,426

2,336

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“…El debate sobre si la empatía puede ser aprendida o no, sobretodo por parte de algunos individuos que parecen carecen de dicha habilidad, continúa abierto. Este tipo de conceptualización sirve a aquellos profesionales que están interesados en aspectos como: la identifi cación de los terapeutas con alta o baja empatía (Rogers, 1957), y la infl uencia de los procesos de desarrollo u otras características de personalidad, sobre la empatía (Feshbach, 1975).…”

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La empatía psicoterapéutica y su evaluación : una revisión

Mateu¹,

Campillo²,

González³

et al. 2010

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Resumen: En el presente trabajo se estudia la evolución del concepto de la empatía en psicoterapia desde sus inicios hasta la actualidad; se revisa el estado actual de su investigación y se describen los recursos e instrumentos más utilizados que se han propuesto para su evaluación. Nuestro objetivo es poder construir un mapa orientativo que nos permita entender la complejidad del proceso empático, las difi cultades y progresos realizados para su investigación, formación y evaluación. También aportar una revisión donde puedan encontrarse los principales instrumentos que se han propuesto para su medida, junto a las características fundamentales de éstos.Palabras clave: Empatía, evaluación, investigación, formación, psicoterapia. Psychotherapeutic empathy and its evaluation: A review Abstract:The present work studies the evolution of the empathy concept in psychotherapy from its beginnings up to today; reviews the current state of its research and describes the resources and instruments that have been proposed for its evaluation. Our aim is to construct a guiding map that allows us to understand the complexity of the empathy process, and the diffi culties and advances of its research, training and evaluation. We also aim to review the sources of the main measuring instruments that have been proposed and their fundamental characteristics.

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“…Previous research has shown communal values to be positively associated with empathy, an other-oriented emotion that implies the ability to recognize emotional cues, take another's perspective, and to be emotionally responsive to another's emotional state (Sams and Truscott 2004). Further, there has been considerable support for a negative association between empathy and aggression/ violence among children (Feshbach 1975;Kaukianen et al 1999). The few studies that have looked at adolescents lend support to this pattern of findings (Sams and Truscott 2004;Kingery et al 1996).…”

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Protective Factors Associated with Preadolescent Violence: Preliminary Work on a Cultural Model

Jagers

Sydnor

Mouttapa

et al. 2007

American J of Comm Psychol

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This study explores the influences of communal values, empathy, violence avoidance self-efficacy beliefs, and classmate's fighting on violent behaviors among urban African American preadolescent boys and girls. As part of a larger intervention study, 644 low-income 5th grade students from 12 schools completed a baseline assessment that included the target constructs. Boys reported more violent behaviors, and lower levels of empathy and violence avoidance self-efficacy beliefs than girls. Path analyses revealed that, after controlling for the positive contributions of classmate's fighting, violence avoidance self-efficacy beliefs were a negative predictor of violent behavior. Communal values had a direct negative relationship with violence for boys, but not girls. Both communal values and empathy were associated with less violent behavior through positive relationships with violence avoidance self-efficacy beliefs. For girls, classmate fighting had an indirect positive association with violent behavior through its negative relationship with violence avoidance self-efficacy beliefs. Findings are discussed in terms of implications of basic and applied research on violence among African American youth.

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Empathy in Children: Some Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

Cited by 285 publications

References 14 publications

Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior

Moral Emotions and Moral Behavior

La empatía psicoterapéutica y su evaluación : una revisión

Protective Factors Associated with Preadolescent Violence: Preliminary Work on a Cultural Model

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