在礼貌困境中测试同情心对儿童亲社会性的因果影响 - - 一项干预研究
Noemi Thiede1, Roman Stengelin1,2, Astrid Seibold3
1Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science
|October 16, 2023
概括
一个同理心干预改善了儿童的同理心,但没有直接增加亲社会行为. 基线上的同情心与儿童的亲社会鼓励有关.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 社会神经科学是一种社会神经科学.
背景情况:
- 理论上,同理心可以驱动儿童的亲社会性.
- 同理心和亲社会行为之间的因果关系通常依赖于相关数据.
研究的目的:
- 研究同情干预对儿童亲社会行为的因果关系.
- 检查在中儿童时期同理心和亲社会性之间的关联.
主要方法:
- 96名德国儿童 (5-8岁) 接受了同理心干预,或参加了对照组.
- 在干预后评估了亲社会行为,包括礼貌的说谎和亲社会鼓励.
- 儿童的同理心水平在基线和干预后被测量.
主要成果:
- 与对照组相比,同理心干预成功地提高了儿童的同理心.
- 干预后立即没有观察到亲社会行为的显著变化.
- 基线同情与亲社会鼓励相关,这表明存在概念联系.
结论:
- 虽然同情心和亲社会性在儿童中概念上是相关的,但干预措施并未确定对行为的直接因果关系.
- 需要进一步的研究来了解同理心和亲社会性之间的细微关系和因果关系.
- 开发的短期干预措施可能对未来关于发展结果的研究有用.
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