Self-reflection and empathy in undergraduate nursing students: a network analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To explore the nuanced structural relationship between insightful self-reflection and empathy using network analysis among undergraduate nursing students.

Background

Empathy, which is an essential component of humanistic nursing care, should be fostered in nursing students. Self-reflection is considered a precondition for the development of empathy. However, the fine-grained interconnections between the different dimensions of self-reflection and empathy remain unclear.

Design

A cross-sectional online survey.

Methods

Convenience sampling was used to recruit participants from four nursing schools from January to February 2024. Participants completed the Chinese version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Nursing Student (CJSE-NS) and the Self-Reflection and In

SUBMITTER: Wu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12750858 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature