Empathy in Toddlers: The Role of Emotion Regulation, Language Ability, and Maternal Emotion Socialization Style

Ornaghi, Veronica; Conte, Elisabetta; Grazzani, I

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586862

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“…Social awareness encompasses various abilities including showing empathy and prosocial behaviors toward others and being able to value and understand others' perspective, a skill present since childhood (Grazzani et al, 2017;Conte et al, 2018;Ornaghi et al, 2020). According to Brooks and Goldstein (2003), empathy is a key component of resilience because by placing yourself in others' situations and understanding others' emotions and thoughts, one can learn and apply resilience without being personally involved into stressful situations.…”

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Adolescents' Resilience During COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Mediating Role in the Association Between SEL Skills and Mental Health

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The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of social and emotional learning (SEL) skills and resilience in explaining mental health in male and female adolescents, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three self-report questionnaires were administered to 778 participants aged between 11 and 16 years (mean age = 12.73 years; SD = 1.73) and recruited from 18 schools in Northern Italy. The SSIS-SELb-S and the CD-RISC 10 assessed SEL and resilience skills respectively, while the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) was used to measure mental health in terms of internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and prosocial behavior. We found that SEL and resilience skills were positively and significantly associated with each other, negatively associated with internalizing and externalizing problems, and positively related to prosocial behavior. Three linear regression analyses showed the significant role of resilience, age, and gender in explaining the variance of internalizing problems; the significant role of SEL skills, resilience, age, and gender in explaining the variance of externalizing problems; and the role of SEL skills, age, and gender in explaining prosocial behavior. Importantly, we found that resilience fully mediated the relationship between SEL skills and internalizing problems, partially mediated the relationship between SEL skills and externalizing problems and didn't mediate the relationship between SEL skills and prosocial behavior. The paper concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the study as well as its practical implications.

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“…Although empathy emerges and develops early in life, it is flexible and amenable to behavioral interventions ( Decety, 2015 ). McDonald and Messinger (2011) identified both intra-individual contributors (e.g., genetics, neural development, and temperament) and socialization factors (e.g., facial mimicry and imitation, parenting, and parent-child relationships) that influence the development of empathy in a young child (see also Ornaghi et al, 2020 ).…”

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Musical Training in the Development of Empathy and Prosocial Behaviors

2021

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Music not only regulates mood but also promotes the development and maintenance of empathy and social understanding. Since empathy is crucial for well-being and indispensable in social life, it is necessary to develop strategies to improve empathy and prosocial behaviors. To fulfill this aim, researchers have extensively investigated the effect of intensive musical training on the development of empathy. Here, we first summarize evidence showing the powerful influence of musical training on the development of empathy and then discuss psychological mechanisms responsible for those observations. The conclusions drawn from most previous studies were mainly based on behavioral measurements, while the neural basis of musical training in the development of the empathic brain is still unclear. Fortunately, brain imaging research has contributed greatly to our understanding of the neural underpinnings associated with musical training and its possible connection to the development of the empathic brain. One of the most distinctive signatures of musical training is structural and functional changes of multiple brain regions, and such changes might be related to some of the empathic behaviors observed in musically trained children. Therefore, intensive musical training in childhood may increase levels of empathy, and applied research is required to optimize the training strategy before implementing music education in empathy regulation. Moreover, future longitudinal studies are needed to better understand neural mechanisms underlying the causal effect of musical training on empathy development. These findings have important implications for understanding the development of the empathic brain and for improving prosocial behaviors.

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“…Given that numerous research emphasized emotion coaching as a predictor of child emotion regulation (89)(90)(91)(92)(93), mothers' social cognition may relate to children's emotion regulation as emotion coaching demands social-cognitive skills to some degree. Mothers first must recognize and understand children's affective and cognitive states to validate and acknowledge their feelings and provide appropriate emotional coaching (90).…”

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Mother-Child Social Cognition Among Multicultural Families in South Korea

Lee

Choi

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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ObjectiveDespite the rapidly growing number of multicultural families in South Korea, factors influencing parenting and mother-child interactions have not been well-understood. To our knowledge, the present study is the first to have examined how maternal social-cognitive capacity is associated with children's social cognition (e.g., theory of mind and emotion recognition) among multicultural families dwelling in South Korea.MethodsForty-seven multicultural mother-child dyads were recruited. The comprehensive measures on social cognition were administered to both the mothers and children, and social functioning and emotion regulation were administered to the children.ResultsA series of hierarchical regressions indicated that mothers' social cognition significantly explained children's ability to recognize static and dynamic emotional expressions, accounting for 27 and 34% of the variance, respectively. Furthermore, mothers' social cognition was significantly correlated to children's social functioning and emotion regulation. However, mothers' social cognition and children's theory of mind were non-significantly related.DiscussionThe current study examined the effects of social cognition of immigrant mothers on their children's socio-emotional development. As the findings indicated an important role of maternal factors (i.e., social cognition) for children's social cognition and their functions, psycho-social approaches (e.g., social cognition parenting education and training) should be incorporated in services for multicultural families.

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Empathy in Toddlers: The Role of Emotion Regulation, Language Ability, and Maternal Emotion Socialization Style

Cited by 32 publications

References 63 publications

Adolescents' Resilience During COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Mediating Role in the Association Between SEL Skills and Mental Health

Adolescents' Resilience During COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Mediating Role in the Association Between SEL Skills and Mental Health

Musical Training in the Development of Empathy and Prosocial Behaviors

Mother-Child Social Cognition Among Multicultural Families in South Korea

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