Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
The Associations between Perceived Parenting Styles, Empathy, and Altruistic Choices in Economic Games: A Study of Chinese Children
Originally published 2017-10-16 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01843 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
How do children’s perceptions of warmth relate to sharing choices and empathy?
Links perceived parental emotional warmth and rejection with children’s altruistic choices in structured games. It is especially useful for separating a measured helping-related choice from a broad claim about a child’s character.
Who was studied?
Four hundred ninety-four Chinese children, with mother-reported child empathy.
Age / stage: School-age children; mean age 8.9 years
Read with three questions
- How was altruism measured in the dictator-game tasks?
- Who reported parenting style and who reported empathy?
- Did the mediation patterns differ for in-group and out-group recipients?
Keep the limits in view
Parenting was not experimentally assigned. Statistical mediation cannot prove a causal chain, and choices in brief economic games may not capture everyday kindness across settings.
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Qingke Guo; Linlin Feng (2017). The Associations between Perceived Parenting Styles, Empathy, and Altruistic Choices in Economic Games: A Study of Chinese Children Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01843
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