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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