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Couples’ empathy and sensitive responsiveness to a crying baby simulator
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Emotional empathy has been linked to prosocial behaviors and is deemed crucial for parenting and caring for infants. This study examined whether emotional empathy (dispositional and in response to infant crying) is associated with sensitive responsiveness, as observed in 221 heterosexual couples (half of whom were expecting their first child) during a standardized caregiving situation. Simulators resembling real infants were used. Caregiving performed by each partner individually and as a couple was observed using the Ainsworth sensitivity scale. The partners rated their own empathy and their perceived partner’s empathy toward the infant simulator. The Polish version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index was used to measure dispositional emotional empathy (empathic concern, EC; personal distress, PD). Multilevel modeling showed that self-reported and partner-reported empathy elicited by the infant simulator mediated the association between dispositional empathic concern and sensitive responsiveness during caretaking. Women were more empathic and responsive while caring for the infant simulator, and couple sensitive responsiveness was predicted by higher dispositional EC and lower PD in women but not in men. Our findings suggest that dispositional empathy and empathic reactions toward an infant simulator might translate into better adjustment to parenthood and more responsive parenting and coparenting.
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Parenting Empathic concern Personal distress Infant crying Caregiving Parental sensitivity
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Kaźmierczak, M., Pawlicka, P., Anikiej-Wiczenbach, P., Łada-Maśko, A., van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. (2024). Couples’ empathy and sensitive responsiveness to a crying baby simulator. Kaźmierczak, M., Pawlicka, P., Anikiej-Wiczenbach, P., Łada-Maśko, A., van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. (2024). Couples’ empathy and sensitive responsiveness to a crying baby simulator. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241240078. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075241240078
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SAGE Publications Ltd