Empathy in Clinical Practice: How Individual Dispositions, Gender, and Experience Moderate Empathic Concern, Burnout, and Emotional Distress in Physicians

To better understand clinical empathy and what factors can undermine its experience and outcome in care-giving settings, a large-scale study was conducted with 7,584 board certified practicing physicians. Online validated instruments assessing different aspects of empathy, distress, burnout, altruis...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 8; no. 4; p. e61526
Main Authors:	Gleichgerrcht, Ezequiel, Decety, Jean
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 19.04.2013 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Adult Affective Symptoms - psychology Age factors Alexithymia Altruism Arousal Behavior Burnout Burnout, Professional - psychology Clinical medicine Demography Emotional behavior Emotions Empathy Exhaustion Factor Analysis, Statistical Fatigue Female Gender differences Humans Male Medical personnel Medical practice Medicine Neural networks Neurosciences Pain Patient satisfaction Physicians Physicians - psychology Population Principal Component Analysis Professional Competence Professional Practice Professionals Psychiatry Psychology Quality of Life Regression Analysis Sex Characteristics Social and Behavioral Sciences Well being Argentina
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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