Attachment Security and Child's Empathy: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation

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Review Is Parent–Child Attachment a Correlate of Children’s Emotion Regulation and Coping? (2017, methodology): “Two studies relied on reports from parents to assess emotion regulation in young children (Brumariu & Kerns, 2013; Hagekull & Bohlin, 2004; Panfile & Laible, 2012).”
A lifespan perspective on attachment and care for others: Empathy, altruism, and prosocial behavior (2016, background): “…mediation model revealed that toddlers’ emotion regulation mediated the association between attachment security and empathy (all mother-reported variables), such that more secure toddlers were better able to regulate their emotions, which then predicted greater empathy (Panfile & Laible, 2012).”
Empathy from infancy to adolescence: An attachment perspective on the development of individual differences (2017, background): “The study by Panfile and Laible (2012), for example, demonstrated that emotion regulation fully mediated the link between preschoolers’ secure Please cite this article in press as: Stern, J. A., & Cassidy, J. Empathy from infancy to adolescence: An attachment perspective on the development of…”