Empathy for others’ suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals

Empathy is a complex cognitive and affective process that allows humans to experience concern for others, comprehend their emotions, and eventually help them. In addition to studies with healthy subjects and various neuropsychiatric populations, a few reports have examined this domain focusing on...

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Autores principales: Santamaría-García, Hernando, Baez, Sandra, García, Adolfo M., Flichtentrei, Daniel, Prats, María, Mastandueno, Ricardo, Sigman, Mariano, Matallana, Diana, Cetkovich, Marcelo, Ibáñez, Agustín
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2018
Materias:
Neurología
Enfermedad mental
Psicólogos
Empatía
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06775-y
https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/11060
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topic Neurología
Enfermedad mental
Psicólogos
Empatía
spellingShingle Neurología
Enfermedad mental
Psicólogos
Empatía
Santamaría-García, Hernando
Baez, Sandra
García, Adolfo M.
Flichtentrei, Daniel
Prats, María
Mastandueno, Ricardo
Sigman, Mariano
Matallana, Diana
Cetkovich, Marcelo
Ibáñez, Agustín
Empathy for others’ suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals
description Empathy is a complex cognitive and affective process that allows humans to experience concern for others, comprehend their emotions, and eventually help them. In addition to studies with healthy subjects and various neuropsychiatric populations, a few reports have examined this domain focusing on mental health workers, whose daily work requires the development of a saliently empathic character. Building on this research line, the present population-based study aimed to (a) assess different dimensions of empathy for pain in mental health workers relative to general-physicians and non-medical workers; and (b) evaluate their relationship with relevant factors, such as moral profile, age, gender, years of experience, and workplace type. Relative to both control groups, mental health workers exhibited higher empathic concern and discomfort for others’ suffering, and they favored harsher punishment to harmful actions. Furthermore, this was the only group in which empathy variability was explained by moral judgments, years of experience, and workplace type. Taken together, these results indicate that empathy is continuously at stake in mental health care scenarios, as it can be affected by contextual factors and social contingencies. More generally, they highlight the importance of studying this domain in populations characterized by extreme empathic demands.
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author Santamaría-García, Hernando
Baez, Sandra
García, Adolfo M.
Flichtentrei, Daniel
Prats, María
Mastandueno, Ricardo
Sigman, Mariano
Matallana, Diana
Cetkovich, Marcelo
Ibáñez, Agustín
author_facet Santamaría-García, Hernando
Baez, Sandra
García, Adolfo M.
Flichtentrei, Daniel
Prats, María
Mastandueno, Ricardo
Sigman, Mariano
Matallana, Diana
Cetkovich, Marcelo
Ibáñez, Agustín
author_sort Santamaría-García, Hernando
title Empathy for others’ suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals
title_short Empathy for others’ suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals
title_full Empathy for others’ suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals
title_fullStr Empathy for others’ suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals
title_full_unstemmed Empathy for others’ suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals
title_sort empathy for others’ suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals
publishDate 2018
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06775-y
https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/11060
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