Nonrandom Acts of Kindness: Parasympathetic and Subjective Empathic Responses to Sadness Predict Children's Prosociality

Autor/inn/en	Miller, Jonas G.; Nuselovici, Jacob N.; Hastings, Paul D.
Titel	Nonrandom Acts of Kindness: Parasympathetic and Subjective Empathic Responses to Sadness Predict Children's Prosociality
Quelle	In: Child Development, 87 (2016) 6, S.1679-1690 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.12629
Schlagwörter	Altruism; Empathy; Psychological Patterns; Prosocial Behavior; Predictor Variables; Young Children; Physiology; Metabolism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Empathie; Prädiktor; Frühe Kindheit; Physiologie; Stoffwechsel
Abstract	How does empathic physiology unfold as a dynamic process, and which aspect of empathy predicts children's kindness? In response to empathy induction videos, 4- to 6-year-old children (N = 180) showed an average pattern of dynamic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) change characterized by early RSA suppression, followed by RSA recovery, and modest subsequent suppression during positive resolution of the empathic event. Children's capacity for this pattern of flexible RSA change was associated with their subjective empathic feelings, which were concurrently associated with more sympathetic and prosocial responses to others. Conversely, only children's dynamic RSA change longitudinally predicted prosocial behavior 2 years later. These findings have implications for understanding the dynamic and multifaceted nature of empathy, and its relation with prosocial development. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01