APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
Indirect Effects of Parent-Child Relationship Quality on Internalizing/Externalizing Problems Via Empathy in Emerging Adult Women and Men
- Khirsten Wilson
Mississippi State University - Tram Nguyen
Mississippi State University - Cliff McKinney
Mississippi State University
Abstract
Prior research has found a relationship between parenting and empathy in children. The current study surveyed 470 college-attending emerging adults regarding their parental environment, empathy, and psychopathology to measure relations among empathy, parent-child relationship, and internalizing/externalizing problems. Various direct and indirect effects were found between the variables.
Psychopathology