The Effects of Socialization Factors on Empathizing and Systemizing Traits in College Students
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Author(s)
Altman, Annie
Date Issued
March 30, 2015
Abstract
Research indicates that someone’s empathizing and systemizing traits are predetermined at birth (Focquart et al., 2007). This current research looked to see if factors of socialization and the environment, specifically socioeconomic status, parents, parenting styles, siblings, sibling relationships, and sex affect a person’s empathizing and systemizing traits. Participants (N=99), consisting of male (n=17) and female (n=82) undergraduate students, took an online survey including measures of these various environmental factors along with the Empathizing Quotient and Systemizing Quotient. Results did not indicate any significant relationship between socialization factors and Empathizing Quotient and Systemizing Quotient scores, besides a significantly positive relationship between Sibling Relationship Questionnaire Warmth and a participant’s Empathizing Quotient score. This result indicates that the socialization factor of sibling relationships may impact a person’s Empathizing Quotient score. Insignificant results related to the other environmental factors could be a result of instruments used in this research that did not effectively capture the environmental factor that they were intended to. Other results indicated a difference between male and female participants regarding both the Empathizing Quotient and the Systemizing Quotient and a difference between sophomores and juniors on the Systemizing Quotient. Future research should investigate these environmental factors, in a variety of samples, to comprehensively understand the relationships between these factors and empathizing and systemizing traits in neurotypical males and females.
Major
Psychology
Honors
Psychology, 2015
First Reader(s)
Chowdhury, Monali
Other Reader(s)
Dickey, Deborah
Department
Psychology
Type of Publication
Senior Project Paper
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