Empathy and big five personality model in medical students and its relationship to gender and specialty preference: a cross-sectional study

Background:Given the influence that personality can have on empathy, this study explores the relationshipbetween empathy and personality, using three different measures of empathy, and taking into account gender andspecialty preference.Methods:Cross-sectional study. One hundred and ten medical stude...

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Autores: Guilera Lladós, Teresa, Batalla, Iolanda, Forné Izquierdo, Carles, Soler González, Jorge
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat de Lleida (UdL)
Repositorio:Repositori Obert UdL
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-019-1485-2
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/67740
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Big five model
Empathy
Medical education
Personality
Undergraduate
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spelling Empathy and big five personality model in medical students and its relationship to gender and specialty preference: a cross-sectional studyGuilera Lladós, TeresaBatalla, IolandaForné Izquierdo, CarlesSoler González, JorgeBig five modelEmpathyMedical educationPersonalityUndergraduateBackground:Given the influence that personality can have on empathy, this study explores the relationshipbetween empathy and personality, using three different measures of empathy, and taking into account gender andspecialty preference.Methods:Cross-sectional study. One hundred and ten medical students completed the Jefferson Scale of PhysicianEmpathy, the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, the Empathy Quotient, and the NEO-FFI Big Five personality model.Multivariable linear regression was performed to assess the association between personality traits and empathy.Results:Empathy scales showed weak and moderate correlation with personality. The strongest correlations wereobserved between IRI-Fantasy and Openness, and between IRI-Personal Distress and Neuroticism. Gender andspecialty preference can modify this relationship. The extreme groups of Empathy Quotient had significantdifferences in most personality traits.Conclusions:This study confirmed that empathy is related to personality. Using three empathy scales allowspersonalizing the evaluation of different empathy models and its relation with personality. These results can help todesign programs to study if some personalized intervention strategies could improve the empathy in medicalstudents.BioMed Central2019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-019-1485-2http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/67740reponame:Repositori Obert UdL instname:Universitat de Lleida (UdL)InglésReproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-019-1485-2BMC Medical Education, 2019, vol. 19, núm. 1, p.57cc-by (c) Guilera et al., 2019info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/es/oai:repositori.udl.cat:10459.1/677402026-06-24T12:42:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Empathy and big five personality model in medical students and its relationship to gender and specialty preference: a cross-sectional study
title Empathy and big five personality model in medical students and its relationship to gender and specialty preference: a cross-sectional study
spellingShingle Empathy and big five personality model in medical students and its relationship to gender and specialty preference: a cross-sectional study
Guilera Lladós, Teresa
Big five model
Empathy
Medical education
Personality
Undergraduate
title_short Empathy and big five personality model in medical students and its relationship to gender and specialty preference: a cross-sectional study
title_full Empathy and big five personality model in medical students and its relationship to gender and specialty preference: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Empathy and big five personality model in medical students and its relationship to gender and specialty preference: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Empathy and big five personality model in medical students and its relationship to gender and specialty preference: a cross-sectional study
title_sort Empathy and big five personality model in medical students and its relationship to gender and specialty preference: a cross-sectional study
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Guilera Lladós, Teresa
Batalla, Iolanda
Forné Izquierdo, Carles
Soler González, Jorge
author Guilera Lladós, Teresa
author_facet Guilera Lladós, Teresa
Batalla, Iolanda
Forné Izquierdo, Carles
Soler González, Jorge
author_role author
author2 Batalla, Iolanda
Forné Izquierdo, Carles
Soler González, Jorge
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Big five model
Empathy
Medical education
Personality
Undergraduate
topic Big five model
Empathy
Medical education
Personality
Undergraduate
description Background:Given the influence that personality can have on empathy, this study explores the relationshipbetween empathy and personality, using three different measures of empathy, and taking into account gender andspecialty preference.Methods:Cross-sectional study. One hundred and ten medical students completed the Jefferson Scale of PhysicianEmpathy, the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, the Empathy Quotient, and the NEO-FFI Big Five personality model.Multivariable linear regression was performed to assess the association between personality traits and empathy.Results:Empathy scales showed weak and moderate correlation with personality. The strongest correlations wereobserved between IRI-Fantasy and Openness, and between IRI-Personal Distress and Neuroticism. Gender andspecialty preference can modify this relationship. The extreme groups of Empathy Quotient had significantdifferences in most personality traits.Conclusions:This study confirmed that empathy is related to personality. Using three empathy scales allowspersonalizing the evaluation of different empathy models and its relation with personality. These results can help todesign programs to study if some personalized intervention strategies could improve the empathy in medicalstudents.
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