Do sensitive parents foster kind children, or vice versa? Bidirectional influences between children’s prosocial behavior and parental sensitivity

  • Newton, E. K., Laible, D., Carlo, G., Steele, J. S., & McGinley, M. (2014). Do sensitive parents foster kind children, or vice versa? Bidirectional influences between children’s prosocial behavior and parental sensitivity. Developmental Psychology, 50(6), 1808-1816. doi:10.1037/a0036495
  • This longitudinal study evaluated the bidirectional relationships between children’s prosocial behavior and parental sensitivity. The findings indicate that parental sensitivity predicted subsequent prosocial behavior in children, which in turn elicited greater parental sensitivity from mothers, but not from fathers.

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