Essays about: "empathic distress"

Found 5 essays containing the words empathic distress.

1. 1. Influence of State Empathic Concern and Personal Distress on Ratings of Dynamical Facial Expressions

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

   Author : Lisa Holzer; [2021]
   Keywords : empathic state; empathic concern; personal distress; emotion perception; emotion labeling; core affect; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Inferring emotions from other people's facial expressions is essential for interpersonal functioning, but not everyone is equally capable. Facets of trait empathy (personal distress and empathic concern) influence emotion perception into opposing directions. READ MORE

3. 2. Impact of Empathy on Burnout Among Swedish Professional Health Care Workers: An Empirical Study

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Socialt arbete

   Author : Rebecca Linder; [2021]
   Keywords : health promotion; empathic distress; empathy; compassion; social care professionals; health care professionals; social work; hälsofrämjande arbetsliv; empatistress; empati; compassion; omsorgsarbetare; socialt arbete;

   Abstract : Objective: Research on the association of empathy and burnout within professional health care workers has shown that the work is posing a risk for burnout. Empathy and compassion abilities are essential to understand others and when working with caring for others. READ MORE

4. 3. EMPATHIC DISTRESS : The Dark Side of Caring?

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

   Author : Hilda Engelbrektsson; [2020]
   Keywords : compassion fatigue; empathic distress; personal distress; neural correlates;

   Abstract : The current review aims to unravel what is known regarding the neural substrates of empathicdistress and compassion fatigue. Empathic distress is a self-oriented feeling of anxietyexperienced in response to the suffering of another. It has been related to, and theorized to bea precursor of, compassion fatigue. READ MORE

5. 4. Love to Help: The Roles of Compassion and Empathy in Regards to Altruism

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete

   Author : Felix Nilsson; David Lindsten Minelius; [2020]
   Keywords : Altruism; Directed Altruism; Compassion; Empathy; Perspective taking; Empathic concern; Personal distress; Emotional contagion; Behavioral contagion; Self-report Survey; Cross-Sectional design.;

   Abstract : Unresolved global problems, such as extreme poverty, ask for a better understanding of what predicts altruism and what does not. The aim of this thesis project was to address this topical and timely research question by studying the predictive role of compassion and empathy in understanding altruism. READ MORE

6. 5. The Four Immeasurables Program: Training empathy and promoting altruism through meditation. An eight-week randomized controlled pilot study.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

   Author : Kousha Safarzadeh; Erik Wallmark; [2011]
   Keywords : compassion; meditation; altruism; empathy; mindfulness; the four immeasurables; loving-kindness; equinimity; Medicine and Health Sciences;

   Abstract : The general purpose of this randomized controlled pilot study was to investigate the potential effects of The Four Immeasurables Program on empathy and measures assumed to be related to the development of empathy and empathic concern for others such as perceived stress, mindfulness, and self-compassion. Of primary interest was to study whether the program can alter the dispositional tendency to feel empathic concern rather than personal distress when perceiving another as in need, termed other-orientation. READ MORE