Contemporaneous and Longitudinal Prediction of Children's Sympathy From Dispositional Regulation and Emotionality

The relation of 8- to 10-year-olds' teacher-reported dispositional sympathy to regulation and emotionality was examined with a longitudinal sample. In general, sympathy was correlated with adults' reports of regulation and low negative emotionality contemporaneously and, to some degree, 2...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 1998-09, Vol.34 (5), p.910-924
Main Authors: Eisenberg, Nancy, Fabes, Richard A, Shepard, Stephanie A, Murphy, Bridget C, Jones, Sarah, Guthrie, Ivanna K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age Differences
Arousal
Attention
Biological and medical sciences
Character
Child
Child development
Child psychology
Developmental psychology
Elementary Education
Elementary School Students
Emotional Development
Emotional Expression
Emotionality (Personality)
Emotions
Empathy
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Individuality
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Personality
Personality Development
Predictor Variables
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Social Perception
Sympathy
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Summary:The relation of 8- to 10-year-olds' teacher-reported dispositional sympathy to regulation and emotionality was examined with a longitudinal sample. In general, sympathy was correlated with adults' reports of regulation and low negative emotionality contemporaneously and, to some degree, 2 and 4 years prior. General emotional intensity interacted with some aspects of regulation in predicting sympathy; for example, attention focusing predicted sympathy but only for children low in general emotional intensity. In general, the pattern of correlations changed little from age 6-8 to age 8-10 years, although parent-reported negative emotionality was more highly negatively related to sympathy at the older age. Dispositional sympathy was associated with verbal or physiological markers of sympathy in a laboratory setting.
ISSN:0012-1649
1939-0599
DOI:10.1037/0012-1649.34.5.910