Exploring Association Between Attachment, Empathy, and Social Competence in Primary School Children
Keywords:
attachment, cognitive component of empathy, social competences, age, educational implicationsAbstract
The present study explores the association between attachment and empathy cognitive component with social competence in peer relationships of children aged 8 to 13 years. The child version of the attachment dimensions assessment (ECR-RC), emotion recognition test (RMET) and social competence peer assessment (Guess Who) were filled in by 285 students. The results demonstrate that prosocial competences are attributed to children with higher empathy levels and secure attachment, while children characterized as bullies had a more negative model of others and lower emotion recognition ability. The predictive power of investigated phenomena was identified only in the older group of children. The recommendations for educational practice were given.
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