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Effects of multidomain environmental and mental health factors on the development of empathetic behaviors and emotions in adolescence

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  • Calli Smith
  • Catherine Stamoulis

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Empathy is at the core of our social world, yet multidomain factors that affect its development in socially sensitive periods, such as adolescence, are incompletely understood. To address this gap, this study investigated associations between social, environmental and mental health factors, and their temporal changes, on adolescent empathetic behaviors/emotions and, for comparison, callous unemotional (CU) traits and behaviors, in the early longitudinal Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development sample (baseline: n = 11062; 2-year follow-up: n = 9832, median age = 119 and 144 months, respectively). Caregiver affection towards the youth, liking school, having a close friend, and importance of religious beliefs/spirituality in the youth’s life were consistently positively correlated with empathetic behaviors/emotions across assessments (p

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  • Calli Smith & Catherine Stamoulis, 2023. "Effects of multidomain environmental and mental health factors on the development of empathetic behaviors and emotions in adolescence," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(11), pages 1-31, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0293473
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293473
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