Social Impact of Empathy in Childhood—Based on a Survey

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201023.024How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Empathy, social skills, childhood, psychology

Abstract

Social skills are extremely important in today’s society, and the study of it is one of the most famous subject in psychology. However, because the lack of knowledge in early age of human, there are only few papers discuss the social skills in childhood time. Therefore, this survey is set up. Among all of the variates that can affect the social skills, the author predicts that empathy is one of the main reason. So this survey is going to discover the influence of the empathy to affect the social skills in childhood time. This survey uses questionnaire to gather data from the testees. The survey contains 24 question, 20 of them is the empathy test, 2 of them is age and sex, the last two one is related to the social skills. The questionnaire results show three main conclusions. The first one is that the influence power of empathy to the social skills in childhood is does exist. Next, the more scores the empathy test a person has, the more scores on the social ability he or she has. The last conclusion is that age and sex are capable to affect the empathy level, although not all of them is related to the social skills.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xingjian Hua
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/06
TI  - Social Impact of Empathy in Childhood—Based on a Survey
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 5th International Conference on Modern Management and Education Technology (MMET 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 129
EP  - 132
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201023.024
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201023.024
ID  - Hua2020
ER  -