1 21 General introduction when making prolonged eye contact with their parent and unknown others. In addition, differences in these responses between depressed and non-depressed adolescents were examined. Chapter 5 examined parents’ empathic responses to the imagined suffering of their adolescent child. In addition, it was examined whether these empathic responses may function as a marker for the parent-child bond by relating these responses to measures of parental care as reported by the adolescent child. Chapter 6 examined the contributing role of eye contact to parents’ empathic accuracy and to their individual state and trait levels of perspective taking and empathic concern towards unknown others in an emotionally valenced social setting. Lastly, Chapter 7 summarized the findings of this thesis and discussed them in the context of connectedness between a parent and adolescent child, the uniqueness of the findings to the parent-adolescent bond, and whether a history of childhood emotional maltreatment in parents and adolescent depression are associated with altered responses to connectedness between parents and adolescents and with unknown others.
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