Análisis evolutivo de la empatía y la ansiedad como variables mediadoras del comportamiento de ayuda

This work analyses the effects of empathy and anxiety on helping behaviour. The hypotheses attempt to discriminate between the different motives (altruistic or egoistic) that can elicit helping behaviour. Two studies were carried out: one with children and another with adolescents. The data was anal...

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Main Author: Smith, Peter
Published: 1989
Online Access: http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=48339
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author Smith, Peter
author_facet Smith, Peter
description This work analyses the effects of empathy and anxiety on helping behaviour. The hypotheses attempt to discriminate between the different motives (altruistic or egoistic) that can elicit helping behaviour. Two studies were carried out: one with children and another with adolescents. The data was analyses using structural equations. (Lisrel, VI). Results showed developmental differences with respect to the capacity of experimental conditions for producing empathy and anxiety, and, therefore, for producing helping behaviour. In conclusion an elargement of the Batson and Coke model is proposed, given the weight that the variable �empathy trait� has had in explaining helping behaviour. With respect to the motives that produced helping behaviour, it is pointed out that in both models this behaviour was explained by empathy (trait and situational), as a result of which we can deduce that the motives were altruistic.
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spellingShingle Análisis evolutivo de la empatía y la ansiedad como variables mediadoras del comportamiento de ayuda
Smith, Peter
title Análisis evolutivo de la empatía y la ansiedad como variables mediadoras del comportamiento de ayuda
title_full Análisis evolutivo de la empatía y la ansiedad como variables mediadoras del comportamiento de ayuda
title_fullStr Análisis evolutivo de la empatía y la ansiedad como variables mediadoras del comportamiento de ayuda
title_full_unstemmed Análisis evolutivo de la empatía y la ansiedad como variables mediadoras del comportamiento de ayuda
title_short Análisis evolutivo de la empatía y la ansiedad como variables mediadoras del comportamiento de ayuda
url http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=48339