@Article{Rozwadowska2012,
journal="Medycyna Paliatywna/Palliative Medicine",
issn="2081-0016",
volume="4",
number="3",
year="2012",
title="Medical volunteers self-analysis of empathic understanding others",
abstract=" Introduction : Empathy researches represent a great difference among defining empathy. Nowadays, it could be distinguished emotional and behavioural empathy. Literature classify an empathy as: moody, apperceptional and intellectual. The empathy as a term was introduced to psychology in 1909 by Tischner.   Aim : The aim of the study was to analyze an empathic understanding others level among medical volunteers.   Material and methods:  Research was conducted among 210 healthy volunteers. 26% of respondents worked as a volunteer shorter than a year, 38% were volunteers do 2-3 years and 36% – more than   3 years. 34% were students and 38% professional workers. Empathy Understanding Questionnaire (KRE) by Węgliński was used in study, based on empathy conception as an emotional-behavioral syndrome.   Results:  People who were working in hospitals reached higher empathy understanding scores than volunteers from other places. It was proved a relation between gender (p = 0.001) and working place as a volunteer (p = 0.032) and a level of empathy understanding others.   Conclusions : Volunteers reached medium score 67. Only 13.8% of respondents reached high level of empathy understanding. Females reached higher scores according to males. It was proved an important relations between gender and working place as a volunteer and empathy level.",
author="Rozwadowska, Emilia
and Krajewska-Kułak, Elżbieta
and Guzowski, Andrzej
and Wiśniewska, Anna
and Cybulski, Mateusz",
pages="168--174",
url="https://www.termedia.pl/Medical-volunteers-self-analysis-of-empathic-understanding-others,59,19807,1,1.html"
}