Empathy and Depression Among Early Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Parental Support.

depression early adolescence empathy maternal support paternal support

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 21 12 2018
accepted: 05 06 2019
entrez: 19 7 2019
pubmed: 19 7 2019
medline: 19 7 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Early adolescence is a period of development of emotional competence, but also of increasing vulnerability for the onset of depressive symptoms. While literature underscored that empathy promotes social relationships and psychological well-being over the life course, the possible role of high empathy levels as a risk factor for depression has been under investigated, especially among early adolescents. Moreover, although parenting practices are known to influence both empathy and depression in adolescence, few studies investigated if parenting moderates the relationship between empathy and depression. Therefore, the aims of the study were: (1) to investigate the relationships between affective and cognitive empathy and depression; (2) to investigate the moderating role of perceived paternal and maternal support on the associations between affective and cognitive empathy and depression; (3) to examine if the relationships among affective and cognitive empathy, maternal and paternal support and depression vary as a function of early adolescents' gender. The study involved 386 Italian students aged between 12 and 14 (

Identifiants

pubmed: 31316426
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01447
pmc: PMC6610578
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

1447

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Auteurs

Emanuela Calandri (E)

Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

Federica Graziano (F)

Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

Silvia Testa (S)

Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

Elena Cattelino (E)

Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Aosta Valley, Aosta, Italy.

Tatiana Begotti (T)

Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

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