Personality characteristics of empathy profiles - practical implications for education of medicine students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Empathy plays the key role in the doctor - patient relationship. The research of empathy determinants plays an important role in formulating practical guidelines for the education of medical students. The aim of this study was to analyse personality characteristics of empathy profiles among students of medicine, with consideration of chief personality factors and their subdimensions according to the FFM model.

Methods

During workshops in Clinical Psychological Skills, 153 students (M = 57, F = 96; mean age 23 years) analysed their psychological functioning styles by examining their personality profiles and empathy indicators. Empathic Sensitiveness Scale (ESS) and Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) were applied for this purpose. The analyses of empathy indicators we

SUBMITTER: Betkowska-Korpala B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9112556 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature