Empathic competences might help adolescents navigate current multicultural societies by supporting harmonious intergroup relations. Yet it is unclear how each component of empathy (empathic concern and perspective-taking) is associated with different dimensions (affective, cognitive, behavioral) of ethnic prejudice. The current study aims to fill this gap. A total of 259 Italian adolescents (M_age = 15.60, 87.6% female) completed online questionnaires at three time points (i.e., April, May, and October 2021). The results of cross-lagged models indicated that empathic concern was directly and indirectly associated with reduced affective, cognitive, and behavioral ethnic prejudice, while perspective-taking was linked to increases in cognitive and one facet of behavioral (i.e., lower contact willingness) prejudice. Furthermore, the prevalence of affect over cognition was found, with the affective component of both empathic competences (i.e., empathic concern) and ethnic prejudice exerting the strongest influence on the cognitive ones.

移情能力可能通过支持和谐的群体间关系来帮助青少年驾驭当前的多元文化社会。然而，目前尚不清楚移情的每个组成部分（移情关注和观点采择）如何与种族偏见的不同维度（情感、认知、行为）相关联。目前的研究旨在填补这一空白。共有 259 名意大利青少年（M_年龄 = 15.60，87.6% 女性）在三个时间点（即 2021 年 4 月、5 月和 2021 年 10 月）完成了在线问卷调查。交叉滞后模型的结果表明，移情关注与情感、认知和行为种族偏见的减少直接或间接相关，而换位思考与认知和行为（即较低的接触意愿）偏见的一个方面的增加有关. 此外，发现情感对认知的普遍存在，移情能力（即移情关注）和种族偏见的情感成分对认知能力的影响最大。