Developing empathy and socio-emotional wellbeing in emerging adulthood: a mixed-methods longitudinal study of an empathy training among Chinese male STEM students

To examine the impact of an empathy training on the development of empathy and social-emotional wellbeing of Chinese emerging adults, the current study applied a mixed-methods design using short-term longitudinal data. Two hundred and forty five STEM male college students (M = 18.22, SD = 0.82) were randomly assigned to a control group and treatment group. The treatment group completed a 21-day empathy training, including two in-person group training sessions, ten journal entries, and three exer