Actor–Partner Interdependence of Compassion toward Others with Qualities of Marital Relationship and Parent-Child Relationships in Chinese Families
作者单位：Institute of Developmental Psychology School of Psychology Beijing Normal University
会议名称：《第二十一届全国心理学学术会议》
会议日期：2018年
关 键 词：Compassion Marital relationship Parent-child relationship Actor-Partner Interdependent Model
摘 要：Relatively little is understood about the benefits of compassion within family relationship systems. In this study, we explored how men’s and women’s general, dispositional compassion toward others related to their own(actor effects) and the partners’(partner effects) marital relationship and parent-child relationships, respectively, using the Actor-Partner Interdependent Model. Participants were from a cross-sectional sample of 534 Chinese heterosexual married couples whose biological children were pupils(mean age = 9.28 year-old, SD = 1.11). Results revealed that:(a) within marital relationships, couple members’ actor effects and partner effects were found both significant;but(b) within parent-child relationships, couple members’ actor effects were significant, whereas only mothers’ partner effect of compassion on father-child relationship was significant. These findings support the benefits of couple members’ individual compassion with respect to family relationship quality. Limitations, implications and future directions are discussed.