Psychology
Zahra Motlagh; MAHDI KHANJANI; Faramarz Sohrabi
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Empathy is one of the components of improving interpersonal interactions that originates from childhood experiences during caregiver-child interactions. Base on this fact, it is reasonable to consider positive and negative childhood experiences as a determining factor in the formation of people's empathy ...
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Empathy is one of the components of improving interpersonal interactions that originates from childhood experiences during caregiver-child interactions. Base on this fact, it is reasonable to consider positive and negative childhood experiences as a determining factor in the formation of people's empathy capacity. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and cognitive and emotional empathy, considering the mediating role of self-compassion .For this purpose, in a descriptive and correlational research, 240 students of different faculties of Allameh Tabataba’i University of Tehran were selected by proportional sampling process. Data were collected by childhood trauma questionnaire, empathy questionnaire and self-compassion scale and by using structural equation modeling and path analysis were analyzed.The findings of the research showed that there is no relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and emotional empathy regarding the mediating role of self-compassion; whereas, childhood traumatic experiences through self-compassion can affect cognitive empathy. Also, childhood emotional and physical traumatic experiences through self-compassion can affect empathy; however, due to dysfunctional emotion regulation mechanisms there is no relationship between the childhood sexual traumatic experiences and empathy, regarding to the mediating role of self-compassion. Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that the proposed model explains the relationship between childhood traumatic experiences and cognitive and emotional empathy by considering the role of self-compassion.
sattar saidi; Hamzeh Ahmadian; majid saffarinia
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Introduction: The relationship between social perspective taking and self-control with prosocial personality of the community is significant. The purpose of the present research was to study the Model Of Relationship Between Social Perspective Taking And Self-Control with prosocial personality ...
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Introduction: The relationship between social perspective taking and self-control with prosocial personality of the community is significant. The purpose of the present research was to study the Model Of Relationship Between Social Perspective Taking And Self-Control with prosocial personality via mediator role of emotional empathy among teachers. Method: The research design is descriptive-correlational using path analysis method. The statistical population of the study consisted of all teachers working at schools in Sanandaj in 2017. In this study, 425 teachers participated. They were selected based on categorical random sampling method. The participants completed the Social Perspective Taking (Mohaghegi et al., 2016), Self-control (Nikmanesh, 2007), Prosocial behavior (Penner, 2002), and Emotional Empathy (Mehrabian & Epstain, 1972) questionnaires. Data analysis was conducted through AMOS software using path analysis method. Results: The results showed that the final model has good fitness with the data. The path analysis model has determined that Pro-social Personality is influenced by social perspective taking directly and indirectly, and by self-control indirectly. Therefore, it can be concluded that social perspective taking and self-control play important roles in the pro-sociality of teachers. Conclusion: Findings show that Emotional Empathy play a significant mediating role for social perspective taking with prosocial personality and not for self-control.
