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KMID : 0608020130210010081
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Korean Journal of Family Therapy
2013 Volume.21 No. 1 p.81 ~ p.102
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Effects of Adolescent Empathy on Maternal Parenting Behaviors and Adolescent Problem Behaviors
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Choi In-Ho
Kim Jin-Y
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Abstract
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Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the mediating effects of adolescents’ capacity for empathy on the relationship between maternal parenting behaviors and adolescent problem behaviors.
Methods: The subjects in this study were 558 second-year middle-school students (266 males and 292 females) in Incheon City. The researchers analyzed the data using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, hierarchical multiple regression analysis, and the Sobel test.
Results: Male students’ capacity for affective empathy had a statistically significant mediating effect on the relationship between mothers’ permissiveness/nonintervention parenting behavior and male students’ externalized problem behavior. This mediating effect was also present in the relationship between mothers’ rejection/restriction parenting behavior and male students’ externalized problem behavior.
Conclusions: The ability of male adolescents to develop and demonstrate empathy significantly influenced maternal behaviors and the adolescents’ problem behaviors.
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KEYWORD
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adolescent, problem behaviors, empathy, maternal parenting behaviors
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