Family Functioning as an Explanatory Factor of Empathic Behavior in Argentine Medical Students.

ABSTRACT: Empathy is a relevant competence in the study and practice of medicine whose development could depend on the functioning style of each family. This study aims to compare the distribution of empathy levels, about functionality or dysfunction, and the three styles, which can be derived from family functioning in the families of Argentine medical students. Previously providing evidence of the validity of the family functioning measure. As well as provide evidence of the validity of the measure of family functioning.

Methods

Ex post facto design: 306 Argentine medical students who had already taken the Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Spanish Edition (JSE-S) and the abbreviated Spanish Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (FACES-20). A gender-weighted linear regression analysis w

SUBMITTER: Ulloque MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10263231 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature