Did you have a controlling mother?
If you did, two new studies show that this lowers one ability to be empathic to others. I know, I know, blame it all on the mom’s right? Well to be fair, I assume this research would point blame at dad’s too. The underlying issue is that empathy can be taught to children. More specifically, it can be modeled. Parents that show a high degree of responsiveness have children with higher levels of concern for others.
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Amplify’d from psp.sagepub.com
The findings suggest that the experience of one’s mother as controlling is likely to interfere with one’s empathic responding and that high levels of perceived maternal responsiveness do not cancel the negative effects of the experience of controlling parenting. Furthermore, the findings suggest that high levels of perceived maternal responsiveness might exacerbate the negative relations between perceived maternal control and personal distress in response to others in need.Read more at psp.sagepub.com
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