Pablo Fernández Lois, María Jesús Fuentes Rebollo
Empatía, amistad, cooperación, competición, niños, adolescentes.
In this study the effects of affective variables such as empathy, anxiety, and friendship in cooperative or competitive interactions are analysed from a developmental point of view. The aims of the study were to analyse the influence of empathy and anxiety on cooperative interactions; to explore developmental differences on subjects� cooperative courses of action when the existing relation was of mutual friendship or rejection. Interactions were analysed by means of the �Lag Sequential Analysis� (Sackett, 1980) in order to learn more about subjects� interactive processes. Different behavioural patterns were obtained for children and adolescents on the basis of the empathy and friendship that existed between subjects