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Interaction Of Parent Pain And Child Empathy On Child Depression: A Pilot Study, Ketlyne Sol
Interaction Of Parent Pain And Child Empathy On Child Depression: A Pilot Study, Ketlyne Sol
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Children aged 11-17, in their relationships with their parents, are capable of experiencing a negative mood if their parent is in pain. According to the empathy-altruism hypothesis, people that are high on empathy will want to help someone in distress with the ultimate goal of benefitting the other person. Because of this, the empathy-altruism hypothesis proposes that if an attempt to help is not resolved, the person will report more negative mood. Because children are capable of experiencing empathy for their parents in distress and feel a negative mood as a result, it was hypothesized that an interaction between empathy …