The impact of social relationship on children’s empathic concern behavior

• Main Author: 莊慧婷
• Other Authors: 金瑞芝
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41659025257932194002

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 97 === This study was aimed to investigate how children’s empathic concern behaviors differ across gender, age groups, as well as types and quality of social relationship. Specifically, how children across gender and ages engage in empathic concern behaviors diffened as reacting to the needs of peer, sibling, and unacquainted kid? How did the empathic concern behaviors differ as a function of the quality of relationship? The subjects consisted of 96 children aged five, six, and seven with sixteen girls and sixteen boys in each group. Only were children with siblings recruited as participants. Children’s empathic concern behaviors were measured by their reactions to two hypothetical excerpts, in which children’s sibling, peer, and an unacquainted kid were in face of a difficult situation. The statistical analyses included Pearson product-moment correlation, two-way ANOVA, three-way ANOVA, and MANOVA. The results were as the following: 1.No significant differences in empathic concern behaviors were noted due to differences in gender and age. 2.Children had more empathic concern behaviors to someone they like than to someone they dislike, no matter who was in need. 3.Seven-year-old children showed more empathic concern behaviors to someone they like. There were no differences in empathic concern behaviors for five-year old children as reacted to liked and unacquainted kids.