Culture-Sex Interaction and the Self-Report Empathy in Australians and Mainland Chinese | |
Zhao, Qing1; Neumann, David L.2; Cao, Yuan3; Baron-Cohen, Simon4; Yan, Chao5; Chan, Raymond C. K.6; Shum, David H. K.2,6,7 | |
刊名 | FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY |
2019-03-12 | |
卷号 | 10页码:15 |
关键词 | empathy cross-cultural culture-sex interaction moderated mediation analysis Australians Mainland Chinese Empathy Quotient Interpersonal Reactivity Index |
ISSN号 | 1664-1078 |
DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00396 |
产权排序 | 6 |
文献子类 | Article |
英文摘要 | Empathy is the ability to understand and share other people's emotions. Researchers have debated whether Westerners and Asians differ in their self-report empathy. This study aimed to replicate a previously reported culture-sex interaction in self-report empathy using Australian and Mainland Chinese participants, to investigate the cultural differences in self-report empathy in each sex group, and to verify the moderated mediating effects of three empathy-related traits (i.e., independent self -construal, interdependent self-construal, and personal distress) on the cultural differences in self-report empathy in both sex groups. In this study, scores on two self-report questionnaires of empathy, namely, the Empathy Quotient (EQ) and the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRO, were compared between 196 Australian Caucasian (101 males) and 211 Mainland Chinese (59 males) university students. Results first confirmed the significant culture-sex interaction and illustrated that the cultural differences in empathy scores were significant only for female (i.e., Australian females had higher scores than Mainland Chinese females) but not for male participants. Furthermore, results of moderated mediation analyses indicated that higher self-report empathy in both females and males was related to higher interdependent self-construal (exhibited by Mainland Chinese) and less personal distress (exhibited by Australians), and particularly in females, also related to higher independent self-construal (exhibited by Australian females). The current study is one of few studies that suggest cultural differences in empathy are dependent on the sex of the participant. Moreover, the current findings have added new insights into the explanation of cultural differences in empathy using personal distress and self-construal. |
WOS关键词 | COGNITIVE EMPATHY ; FUNCTIONING AUTISM ; QUOTIENT ; VALIDATION ; EMOTION ; BRAIN ; GENDER ; PERSONALITY ; PERCEPTION ; RESPONSES |
WOS研究方向 | Psychology |
语种 | 英语 |
出版者 | FRONTIERS MEDIA SA |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000460901600001 |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
源URL | [http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/28636] |
专题 | 心理研究所_中国科学院心理健康重点实验室 |
通讯作者 | Zhao, Qing; Neumann, David L.; Shum, David H. K. |
作者单位 | 1.Griffith Univ, Menzies Hlth Inst Queensland, Sch Appl Psychol, Brisbane, Qld, Australia 2.Griffith Univ, Sch Appl Psychol, Gold Coast, Qld, Australia 3.Univ Queensland, Sch Psychol, Brisbane, Qld, Australia 4.Univ Cambridge, Autism Res Ctr, Dept Psychiat, Cambridge, England 5.East China Normal Univ, Minist Educ, Shanghai, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, CAS Key Lab Mental Hlth, Neuropsychol & Appl Cognit Neurosci Lab, Beijing, Peoples R China 7.Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Dept Rehabil Sci, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhao, Qing,Neumann, David L.,Cao, Yuan,et al. Culture-Sex Interaction and the Self-Report Empathy in Australians and Mainland Chinese[J]. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,2019,10:15. |
APA | Zhao, Qing.,Neumann, David L..,Cao, Yuan.,Baron-Cohen, Simon.,Yan, Chao.,...&Shum, David H. K..(2019).Culture-Sex Interaction and the Self-Report Empathy in Australians and Mainland Chinese.FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,10,15. |
MLA | Zhao, Qing,et al."Culture-Sex Interaction and the Self-Report Empathy in Australians and Mainland Chinese".FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY 10(2019):15. |
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