中学1年生の共感と対人的適応 : その関連性と対象別・感情別共感の次元

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First, this study examined the relationship among the dimensions of trait empathy, internal other-consciousness, concern for others, and interpersonal adjustment (family relations, friendship, and relations with teachers) in first-grade junior high school boys and girls. The dimensions of trait empathy, which influenced the scores of the interpersonal adjustment scales, were different between boys and girls. The boys' scores pertaining to friendship and relations with teachers were influenced by empathic concern; however, the girls' scores for the same scales were influenced by cognitive empathy. Second, this study examined (1) what emotion is shared by these students and (2) with whom and to what degree is it shared among junior high school pupils, using a newly developed empathy scale containing these dimensions. The following were prepared as its subscales: sharing emotions with family, sharing emotions with friends, sharing emotions with strangers, sharing pleasure, sharing suffering, sharing sadness, and sharing anger. The results revealed that junior high school pupils shared emotions with their family and friends to great extent; however, they did not share similar emotions with strangers. Among the four emotions, they shared pleasure the most. The girls' scores in the empathy-related traits were higher than those of the boys'.
2009-02-25