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 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 ex

SUBMITTER: Santamaria-Garcia H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5527046 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature