Cognitive and Affective Empathy Relate Differentially to Emotion Regulation.

ABSTRACT: The constructs of empathy (i.e., understanding and/or sharing another's emotion) and emotion regulation (i.e., the processes by which one manages emotions) have largely been studied in relative isolation of one another. To better understand the interrelationships between their various component processes, this manuscript reports two studies that examined the relationship between empathy and emotion regulation using a combination of self-report and task measures. In study 1 (N = 137), trait cognitive empathy and affective empathy were found to share divergent relationships with self-reported emotion dysregulation. Trait emotion dysregulation was negatively related to cognitive empathy but did not show a significant relationship with affective empathy. In the second study (N = 

SUBMITTER: Thompson NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8989800 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature