児童期の共感性に関する発達的研究

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The present study was proposed to clarify the developmental change of empathy in childhood. Subjects participating in this research were made of 120 first graders, 120 third graders, and 120 sixth graders at elementary school. Each subject was asked to respond to Feshbach & Roe (1968)'s Affective Situation Test (AST). Empathy scores among girls were found to be higher than those of boys in first and 6th graders. Age x "In-and out-group" conditions interaction proved significant. This finding revealed that the empathy score decreased with age under Out-group condition. The empathy scores in In-group increased from first to third grade, still showed no significant change across upper grades. Similarity between sex and story figures had no significant effect on the empathy scores in children. A qualitative analysis showed that 6th graders presented responses at a higher stage of empathic understandings of others than third graders. No sex difference in children's empathic understandings of others was seen.
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