The Relations of Empathy and Role-Taking Ability to Guilt Feelings in Adolescence.

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  • ISHIKAWA Takayuki
    Graduate School of Psychology,Doshisha University:(Present address)Ichinomiya Women's Junior College
  • UCHIYAMA Ichiro
    Department of Psychology,Doshisha University

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  • 青年期の罪悪感と共感性および役割取得能力の関連
  • セイネンキ ノ ザイアクカン ト キョウカンセイ オヨビ ヤクワリ シュトク ノウリョク ノ カンレン

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The present study related empathy and role-taking ability to guilt, by inducing guilt feelings in interpersonal and rule-breaking situations. Junior and senior high school and college students (N=444) completed questionnaires to assess their guilt, empathy, and role-taking ability (social perspective-taking). The results showed that guilt feelings were the most intense in the interpersonal situation among college students, and in the rule-breaking situation among junior high school students. Correlations between empathy, role-taking ability and guilt feelings were next calculated for each gender group. For males, empathy was positively correlated with guilt feelings in the interpersonal situation, as was role-taking ability in the rule-breaking situation. For female students, empathy was positively correlated with guilt feelings in both the interpersonal and rule-breaking situations, as was role-taking ability in the rule-breaking situation. In sum, the data showed an important link between empathy and role-taking ability to guilt feelings. There was no gender difference for the interpersonal situation, but a gender effect was found for the rule-breaking situation.

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