Sympathy is regarded as an important precursor to the development of emotional intimacy, including mutual disclosure. In turn, emotional intimacy is assumed to foster the development of sympathy. Yet, research has not examined how sympathy and mutual disclosure in generic friendships are mutually related to one another during mid‐adolescence to early adulthood. Data came from three waves of the Swiss Survey of Children and Youth (COCON; N = 1,258). Bidirectional links between sympathy and mutual disclosure were tested with autoregressive cross‐lagged panel analyses. Sympathy at age 15 was associated with mutual disclosure in friendships at 18, which in turn was associated with sympathy at 21. Multi‐group models suggested that our model better describes these processes in females than in males.

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从青春期中期到成年早期友谊中同情与相互披露之间的发展关联

同情被认为是情感亲密发展的重要先兆，包括相互披露。反过来，情感上的亲密被认为可以促进同情心的发展。然而，研究尚未检验一般友谊中的同情和相互披露在青春期中期到成年早期是如何相互关联的。数据来自三轮瑞士儿童和青少年调查（COCON；N  = 1,258）。通过自回归交叉滞后面板分析测试了同情与相互披露之间的双向联系。15 岁时的同情心与 18 岁时友谊中的相互透露有关，而 18 岁时友谊中的相互透露又与 21 岁时的同情心有关。多组模型表明，我们的模型比男性更好地描述了女性的这些过程。