Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 2 · Licensed source edition
Parental Burnout and Prosocial Behavior among Chinese Adolescents: The Role of Empathy
Originally published 2023-12-25 · Behavioral Sciences
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/bs14010017 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
How does fatigue affect our ability to notice one another’s feelings?
The focus here is how caregiver exhaustion and empathy figure in adolescent prosocial behavior.
Who was studied?
488 parent-adolescent pairs in China responding to questionnaires
Age / stage: Adolescence
Read with three questions
- How did the authors investigate how caregiver exhaustion and empathy figure in adolescent prosocial behavior?
- Whose report describes the parent, the child and the outcome, and where might those reports differ?
- How were a parent’s empathy and a teenager’s prosocial behavior reported and distinguished?
Keep the limits in view
In these 488 dyads, measures of social desirability help examine response tendencies but cannot remove every reporting bias.
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Qichen Wang; Yue Lin; Ziwen Teuber; Fangmin Li; Yanjie Su; Scott D Lane (2023). Parental Burnout and Prosocial Behavior among Chinese Adolescents: The Role of Empathy Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14010017
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