EJ439967
PS519049
Title: The Relations of Parental Characteristics and Practices to
Children's Vicarious Emotional Responding.Author(s): Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others
Source: Child Development, v62 n6 p1393-1408 Dec 1991
Publication Date: 1991
ISSN: 0009-3920
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJJUN1992
Assessed parental
characteristics; children's physiological and self-reported reactions
to a sympathy-inducing film; and children's dispositional traits.
Parental sympathy was related to low distress in same-sex children,
and to sons' sympathy. Same-sex parental restrictiveness of hurtful
emotional displays was related to children's sympathy. (BC)
Descriptors: *Child Rearing; Coping; Discipline; Elementary Education;
*Elementary School Students; *Emotional Response; Empathy; Facial
Expressions; Heart Rate; *Parent Child Relationship; Parents; *Sex
Differences; *Socialization
Identifiers: Galvanic Skin Response; Negative Affect; *Sympathy
