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Impact of Parenting on Empathy and Personal Distress among Adolescents
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The researcher aimed at studying the impact of parenting and gender difference on Empathy and Personal Distress. The sample comprised 100 adolescents (50 girls and 50 boys) aged 15 to 17 years, selected from Intermediate Colleges of Agra. The subjects were assessed with Parenting Scale by Bhardwaj, Sharma, Garg( 1995) Empathetic Concern and Personal Distress Scale by Davis( 1980). The study concluded that (a) adolescents in the category of good parenting had high empathy (b) good and average parenting also results in less personal distress (c) girls reported good parenting as compared to boys (d) boys had more empathy than girls (e) on personal distress, male and female adolescents differed category wise, not sex wise.
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Parenting, Empathy, Personal Distress.
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