Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Linking Parent–Child and Peer Relationship Quality to Empathy in Adolescence: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis
Originally published 2019-02-27 · Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Springer Science and Business Media LLC · DOI 10.1007/s10964-019-00993-5 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
How are supportive family and peer relationships associated with adolescent empathy?
Connects the quality of everyday relationships with adolescents’ concern for, and understanding of, other people. It provides a synthesis for the Kindness theme rather than a test of the complete TRICK framework.
Who was studied?
Seventy eligible studies of adolescents and their parent and peer relationships.
Age / stage: Adolescence
Read with three questions
- How large were the parent–child associations compared with peer associations?
- Did positive relationship qualities differ from conflict or other negative qualities?
- Which measures of affective and cognitive empathy were combined?
Keep the limits in view
The synthesis primarily establishes associations. Heterogeneous relationship and empathy measures, and possible reciprocal influences, prevent a simple claim that one parenting practice causes empathy.
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Savannah Boele; Jolien Van der Graaff; Minet de Wied; Inge E. Van der Valk; Elisabetta Crocetti; Susan Branje (2019). Linking Parent–Child and Peer Relationship Quality to Empathy in Adolescence: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis Journal of Youth and Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-00993-5
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