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Analyzing when parental warmth but without parental strictness leads to more adolescent empathy and self-concept: Evidence from Spanish homes
Originally published 2022-12-05 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1060821 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
What does this Spanish study suggest about warmth, empathy and parental strictness?
Explores warmth in relation to both understanding others’ emotions and sharing their feelings. Its cultural setting is useful for questioning universal assumptions about strictness, without treating one survey as a prescription for every family.
Who was studied?
Six hundred Spanish adolescents reporting household parenting styles, empathy and self-concept.
Age / stage: 12–17 years
Read with three questions
- How did the study distinguish cognitive from emotional empathy?
- How were the four parenting-style groups defined?
- Which findings were associations with warmth rather than evidence about changing a family’s rules?
Keep the limits in view
Cross-sectional self-reports from Spanish adolescents do not establish causal effects or show that the same parenting-style comparisons apply in every cultural context.
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Maria C Fuentes; Oscar F Garcia; Marta Alcaide; Rafael Garcia-Ros; Fernando Garcia (2022). Analyzing when parental warmth but without parental strictness leads to more adolescent empathy and self-concept: Evidence from Spanish homes Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1060821
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