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ERIC Number: EJ439967
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
The Relations of Parental Characteristics and Practices to Children's Vicarious Emotional Responding.
Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others
Child Development, v62 n6 p1393-1408 Dec 1991
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
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Galvanic Skin Response; Negative Affect; Sympathy