@article{1d370d77a69542e6b27b82c10a85baa1,
title = "Direct and indirect pathways from maternal and paternal empathy to young children's socioemotional functioning",
abstract = "In the present article, we investigated the contributions of maternal and paternal empathy to child socioemotional competence both directly and indirectly through parents' emotion socialization practices using data from two longitudinal studies: Study 1 (n = 122, 61 girls, M age = 33 months) and Study 2 (n = 60, 31 girls; M age = 27 months). Results indicated that parental empathy had an indirect effect on children's positive peer relations (Study 1 and Study 2) via more supportive reactions to children's negative emotions. No indirect effects of parental empathy emerged in the models examining parents' nonsupportive reactions to children's emotions, although parental empathy showed a direct association with greater child empathy (Study 2). Moreover, paths composing indirect and direct effects did not significantly differ as a function of parent gender. The findings suggest that mothers' and fathers' dispositional empathy contribute in similar ways to young children's socioemotional competence.",
keywords = "Emotion socialization, Fathers, Parental empathy, Peer relationships",
author = "Yannan Hu and Emery, {Helen T.} and Niyantri Ravindran and McElwain, {Nancy L.}",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to the families who participated in this research, and we also thank Elissa Thomann-Mitchell, Kimi Crossman, Jennifer Engle, Stella Peduzzi, and Mallory Mudra for their assistance with data collection. Preliminary findings from this article were presented at the Society for Research on Child Development Parenting at Risk (San Diego, CA, November 13-15, 2014). This study was supported by funding from the Family Resiliency Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the National Science Foundation (Grant DLS 0643260) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (Grants ILLU-793-332 and ILLU-793-362) to Nancy L. McElwain. Funding Information: We are grateful to the families who participated in this research, and we also thank Elissa Thomann-Mitchell, Kimi Crossman, Jennifer Engle, Stella Peduzzi, and Mallory Mudra for their assistance with data collection. Preliminary findings from this article were presented at the Society for Research on Child Development Parenting at Risk (San Diego, CA, November 13–15, 2014). This study was supported by funding from the Family Resiliency Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign, the National Science Foundation (Grant DLS 0643260) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (Grants ILLU-793-332 and ILLU-793-362) to Nancy L. McElwain. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 American Psychological Association.",
year = "2020",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1037/fam0000745",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "34",
pages = "825--835",
journal = "Journal of Family Psychology",
issn = "0893-3200",
publisher = "American Psychological Association Inc.",
number = "7",
}