【摘要】本研究的主要目的是从远近原则、同情感受与同情行为等方面对儿童同情心的特点进行分析。通过自编的12个与同情心有关的题目，对102名小学生进行了问卷调查。结果表明：儿童同情感受的程度、激发同情行为的可能性高低受与他人的远近关系影响，但是儿童的感情会更多的放在那些可爱、友好的动物上；儿童对他人的同情感受与同情行为无差异；大多数儿童认为动物的遭遇十分值得同情，但是如果要真的让他们做出实际的同情行为，他们中的一部分就会做出与自己情感相违背的行为；

【关键词】同情心；远近关系；儿童

Abstract：The mayor purpose of this research is to analyze the features of children’s sympathy from distance principle, sympathy experiencing and sympathy behavior. A questionnaire survey that made up by 12 questions related to sympathy was conducted among 102 pupils. The results showed that sympathy experience and sympathy behavior was affected by the distance principle, but children paid more attention to the lovely and friendly animals. There was no difference between sympathy experiencing and sympathy behaviors of children. Most of children considered that the experience of animals was worthy of sympathy, but if they were in a really situation, they might behave contrast to their feelings. In different situation, Children’s sympathy behavior was different.

Key words: sympathy; distance principle; children