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

Abstract 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 focus...

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Autores principales:	Hernando Santamaría-García, Sandra Baez, Adolfo M. García, Daniel Flichtentrei, María Prats, Ricardo Mastandueno, Mariano Sigman, Diana Matallana, Marcelo Cetkovich, Agustín Ibáñez
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2017
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5bbc11a9667a4f72835af9c46ea681812021-12-02T12:30:26ZEmpathy for others’ suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals10.1038/s41598-017-06775-y2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/5bbc11a9667a4f72835af9c46ea681812017-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06775-yhttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract 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.Hernando Santamaría-GarcíaSandra BaezAdolfo M. GarcíaDaniel FlichtentreiMaría PratsRicardo MastanduenoMariano SigmanDiana MatallanaMarcelo CetkovichAgustín IbáñezNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2017)
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description	Abstract 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	Hernando Santamaría-García Sandra Baez Adolfo M. García Daniel Flichtentrei María Prats Ricardo Mastandueno Mariano Sigman Diana Matallana Marcelo Cetkovich Agustín Ibáñez
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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
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Empathy for others’ suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals

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