Convergent Neural Correlates of Empathy and Anxiety During Socioemotional Processing.

ABSTRACT: Empathy is characterized by the ability to understand and share an emotional experience with another person and is closely tied to compassion and concern for others. Consequently, this increased emotional awareness and sensitivity may also be related to increased anxiety. Taken from another perspective, higher general anxiety may translate into increased concern for others, or concern for how one's actions might affect others, and therefore may be linked to increased empathy. Furthermore, self-reflection is positively related to perspective-taking and empathic concern, while rumination is closely tied to anxiety, thus providing an additional connecting point between empathy and anxiety through enhanced internally generated thought. While previous literature suggests a relationship between

SUBMITTER: Knight LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6438321 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature