Parent-child interaction plays a key role in the development and maintenance of individual social emotional ability.Although studies have found that parents'alexithymia affects their offspring's social-emotion...Parent-child interaction plays a key role in the development and maintenance of individual social emotional ability.Although studies have found that parents'alexithymia affects their offspring's social-emotional abilities,it is unclear how parents'and children's alexithymia affect each other and their empathic abilities.This study examined the relationship between college stu-dents'and their parents'alexithymia and empathy,focusing on both actor effects(individual-level associations)and partner effects(dyadic-level associations).A total of 1058 parent-youth dyads from a single college participated in the study,completing self-report measures of alexithymia and empathy.Using an actor-partner interdependence model analysis,the results revealed significant actor effects of alexithymia on cognitive empathy across all parent-youth dyads,though no such effects were found for affective empathy.Additionally,significant partner effects were observed,with sons'alexithymia linked to their fathers'cognitive empathy and mothers'affective empathy.These findings emphasize the complex dynamics of social-affective abilities within parent-youth relationships among college students and provide important implications for future research,intervention,and prevention efforts.展开更多
Previous studies have mainly focused on examining families’struggles during the adaptive process of adversity,while the strength of family and how it arises were neglected.This study aims to explore the relationships...Previous studies have mainly focused on examining families’struggles during the adaptive process of adversity,while the strength of family and how it arises were neglected.This study aims to explore the relationships between individual and family resilience among parents and children in families during COVID-19.Guided by the longitudinal actor-partner interdependence model,one parent and a child in 136 Chinese families completed assessments of pandemic media exposure and individual resilience in mid-February 2020 and family resilience in early March.Results showed that the child’s individual resilience was positively associated with their own and their parents’family resilience,while parents’resilience was only positively associated with their own.The evidence indicated that a child’s individual resilience was critical for all core family members’perceived family resilience and provided implications for family intervention programs.展开更多
基金supported by the following grants:the Shandong Province Undergraduate College Teaching Reform Research Project(M2022333)to Yan-yu Wangthe Shandong Education and Teaching Research Project(2023JXY018)to Neng-zhi Jiangthe“14th Five-Year Plan”Planning Project of Shandong Provincial Education Science(2023ZC102)to Gui-xiang Tian.
文摘Parent-child interaction plays a key role in the development and maintenance of individual social emotional ability.Although studies have found that parents'alexithymia affects their offspring's social-emotional abilities,it is unclear how parents'and children's alexithymia affect each other and their empathic abilities.This study examined the relationship between college stu-dents'and their parents'alexithymia and empathy,focusing on both actor effects(individual-level associations)and partner effects(dyadic-level associations).A total of 1058 parent-youth dyads from a single college participated in the study,completing self-report measures of alexithymia and empathy.Using an actor-partner interdependence model analysis,the results revealed significant actor effects of alexithymia on cognitive empathy across all parent-youth dyads,though no such effects were found for affective empathy.Additionally,significant partner effects were observed,with sons'alexithymia linked to their fathers'cognitive empathy and mothers'affective empathy.These findings emphasize the complex dynamics of social-affective abilities within parent-youth relationships among college students and provide important implications for future research,intervention,and prevention efforts.
基金The National Social Science Fund of China,Grant/Award Number:20CSH068。
文摘Previous studies have mainly focused on examining families’struggles during the adaptive process of adversity,while the strength of family and how it arises were neglected.This study aims to explore the relationships between individual and family resilience among parents and children in families during COVID-19.Guided by the longitudinal actor-partner interdependence model,one parent and a child in 136 Chinese families completed assessments of pandemic media exposure and individual resilience in mid-February 2020 and family resilience in early March.Results showed that the child’s individual resilience was positively associated with their own and their parents’family resilience,while parents’resilience was only positively associated with their own.The evidence indicated that a child’s individual resilience was critical for all core family members’perceived family resilience and provided implications for family intervention programs.
