Frameworks of Caring and Helping in Adolescence: Are Empathy, Religiosity, and Spirituality Related Constructs?

Autor/inn/en	Markstrom, Carol A.; Huey, Erron; Stiles, Bethanie Morris; Krause, Amanda L.
Titel	Frameworks of Caring and Helping in Adolescence: Are Empathy, Religiosity, and Spirituality Related Constructs?
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 42 (2010) 1, S.59-80 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X09333644
Schlagwörter	Sex Role; Perspective Taking; Religious Factors; Empathy; Caring; Helping Relationship; Adolescents; Gender Differences; Volunteers; Measures (Individuals); Regression (Statistics); Beliefs; Correlation; High School Students; West Virginia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterrolle; Zukunftsperspektive; Empathie; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Helfende Beziehung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Geschlechterkonflikt; Freiwilliger; Messdaten; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Belief; Glaube; Korrelation; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin
Abstract	Caring and helping are suggested as mechanisms that link empathy to religiosity and spirituality. To test this assertion, 428 adolescents completed self-report measures of religious attendance, importance of spiritual or religious beliefs, care, volunteerism, and affective and cognitive subscales of empathy. Sex differences also were examined. Importance of beliefs was associated with empathic concern and perspective-taking forms of empathy. Unexpectedly, religious attendance was not related to either subscale of empathy. Through a series of regressions, care was shown to mediate the relations between importance of beliefs and empathic concern and perspective taking, and volunteerism mediated the relation between importance of beliefs and perspective taking. Care, especially, should continue to be examined for its bridging function between empathy and religiosity and spirituality. Gender role and biological sex distinctions should also be examined in future studies. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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