Psychological Development and Education ›› 2011, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (5): 491-497.

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Perspective Taking and Helping Behavior in University Students:The Role of Group Relation and Empathic Response

SUN Bing-hai1, MIAO De-lu1, LI Wei-jian1, ZHANG Hai-xing2, XU Jing-yi3   

  1. 1. School of Teacher Education, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004;
    2. Zhejiang Industry & Trade Vocational College, Wenzhou 325003;
    3. Haining Second Middle School, Haining 314400
  • Online:2011-09-15 Published:2011-09-15

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Abstract: A sample of 56 university students was selected in the present study to explore the different roles of the group's relation and empathic response which influenced the relation between perspective taking and helping behavior.Within-group design was experimented in two different group relations.Following results were shown:1) in the in-group and out-group,empathic response served to mediate the association between perspective taking and helping behavior;2)the group's relation served to moderate this association in that,empathic response served to part of mediate the association between perspective taking and helping behavior in the in-group,which empathic response served to all of mediate the association between perspective taking and helping behavior in the out-group.

Key words: perspective taking, helping behavior, empathic response, in-group, out-group

CLC Number: 

  • B844.3
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