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RICHAUD DE MINZI, María Cristina. Influence of parents modeling over children development of prosocial reasoning. Interam. j. psychol. [online]. 2009, vol.43, n.1, pp.187-198. ISSN 0034-9690.

Increasing problems of children aggressiveness indicate the importance to evaluate prosocial moral reasoning as a protective process, given that it occurs to face with a problem or necessity of other person, that involves a help response that comes into conflict with the own necessities and wishes. Eisenberg (2000) underlines that to study moral behaviour it is necessary to include emotional regulation and empathy. At the same time, it would seem that empathy is influenced to a large extent by early interpersonal relationships experiences (Krevans & Gibbs, 1996). In the present work I will analyze if parental behaviour is related to prosocial moral reasoning in middle and late childhood. At the same time, given that perceived parent's empathy in children has an influence on children empathy, I will study the relationship between perceived parent's empathy by children and children prosocial moral reasoning. Moreover, I will analyze the influence of children gender and age. I administered the Spanish version of Prosocial Reasoning Objective Measure (PROM) (Carlo, Eisenberg, & Knight, 1992; Mestre, Frías, Samper, & Tur, 2002), two questionnaires to study child perception of mother and father empathy (Richaud de Minzi, 2006), based on Davis model (1980) and Perception of Parental Styles Inventory in children between 8 and 12 years, to a sample of 610 children between 9 and 12 years (Richaud de Minzi, 2007). I calculated multiple regressions to analyze the contribution of children perception of parental empathy and behaviour to explain prosocial reasoning development and style.

Palabras clave : Prosociality; Moral reasoning; Empathy; Modeling.

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