In the present article, we investigated the contributions of maternal and paternal empathy to child socioemotional competence both directly and indirectly through parents' emotion socialization practices using data from two longitudinal studies: Study 1 (n = 122, 61 girls, M age = 33 months) and Study 2 (n = 60, 31 girls; M age = 27 months). Results indicated that parental empathy had an indirect effect on children's positive peer relations (Study 1 and Study 2) via more supportive reactions to children's negative emotions. No indirect effects of parental empathy emerged in the models examining parents' nonsupportive reactions to children's emotions, although parental empathy showed a direct association with greater child empathy (Study 2). Moreover, paths composing indirect and direct effects did not significantly differ as a function of parent gender. The findings suggest that mothers' and fathers' dispositional empathy contribute in similar ways to young children's socioemotional competence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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从母体和父亲的同情心到幼儿的社会情感功能的直接和间接途径。

在本文中，我们使用两项纵向研究的数据，通过父母的情感社交活动，直接或间接地调查了父母同情对孩子社会情感能力的贡献：研究1（n = 122，61个女孩，M年龄= 33个月）和研究2（n = 60，31个女孩； M年龄= 27个月）。结果表明，父母同情会通过对孩子的负面情绪的更多支持反应，间接影响孩子的积极同伴关系（研究1和研究2）。尽管父母同情表现出与更大的孩子同理感直接相关，但检查父母对孩子情绪的非支持性反应的模型并未出现父母同理心的间接影响（研究2）。此外，构成间接和直接影响的路径在父母性别之间没有显着差异。研究结果表明，母亲和父亲的性情同理对幼儿的社会情感能力有类似的贡献。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。