부모의 공감이 청소년의 또래괴롭힘피해자 방어행동에 미치는 영향: 청소년 공감의 매개효과 검증 = The Influence of Parental Empathy on Adolescents`` Defending Behaviors in Bullying Situations: Testing the Mediation Effect of Adolescent Empathy

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The aim of this study was to examine if father``s empathy and mother``s empathy influenced adolescents`` defending behaviors in bullying situations and if these links were mediated by adolescent cognitive empathy and emotional empathy. Participants in this study were 439 middle school students(209 boys, 230 girls) attending schools in Gyunggi Province of South Korea. Key findings of the study were as follows: First, parental empathy had no direct effect on adolescents’ defending behaviors in bullying situation. The effect was significant only through adolescent empathy. Second, according to the results of mediating effects verification using sobel(1982)’s test, a significant mediated path was only the path from mother``s empathy to defending behaviors mediated by adolescents’ emotional empathy. In this study, through examining the path from parental empathy to adolescents’ defending behaviors, the importance of mother empathy and adolescents’ emotional empathy was revealed.