The association between empathy ability and attitudes toward children with disabilities in inclusive physical education classes among primary students: the mediating role of friendship quality

Friendship quality plays a key role in mediating the effect of empathy on attitudes of children without disabilities toward their peers with disabilities. Enhancing students' empathy indirectly improves their attitudes toward disabilities by strengthening friendships.

Authors

Xueping Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7740-5696)
Walter Ling
Dandan Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3628-9569)
Xin Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9040-2609)
Lei Zhang
Dong Yu Zhu

Institutions

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (CN)
Hohai University (CN)
Shanghai University of Sport (CN)

Publication Details

Journal: Frontiers in Psychology
Published: 2025-04-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1531002
Citations: 2
Primary Topic: Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
Type: article
Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 8.40

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The association between empathy ability and attitudes toward children with disabilities in inclusive physical education classes among primary students: the mediating role of friendship quality

Xueping Wu, Walter Ling, Dandan Wang, Xin Xu et al.

Apr 17, 2025

2 citations

Frontiers in Psychology

Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport

8.40

article

The association between empathy ability and attitudes toward children with disabilities in inclusive physical education classes among primary students: the mediating role of friendship quality

Xueping Wu, Walter Ling, Dandan Wang, Xin Xu, Lei Zhang, Dong Yu Zhu

April 17, 2025article en

2 citations

Abstract

Friendship quality plays a key role in mediating the effect of empathy on attitudes of children without disabilities toward their peers with disabilities. Enhancing students' empathy indirectly improves their attitudes toward disabilities by strengthening friendships.

Frontiers in PsychologyVol. 16

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (CN), Hohai University (CN), Shanghai University of Sport (CN)

Openalex Percentile: Top 4%

Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport

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