Relations between empathy and anxiety dimensions in inpatient adolescents
Relations between empathy and anxiety dimensions in inpatient adolescents
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DOI：
10.1080/10615806.2018.1475868
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Sharp, Carla
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作者：
Gambin, Malgorzata;Sharp, Carla
背景和目标：需要更好地了解移情和内化障碍之间的关系，以规划儿童和青少年的治疗干预措施。一些研究已经揭示了内化症状与个人苦恼和情感移情的正相关。然而，目前还缺乏研究，考虑到其关系到empathy.Design的焦虑的多维度的性质：结构方程模型被用来测试之间的关系，移情，抑郁和焦虑的尺寸和性别的调节作用，这些协会在住院青少年的调节调解模型。共有403名12-17岁的住院青少年完成了基本同理心量表、儿童多维焦虑量表和贝克抑郁量表-II。情感移情与所有焦虑维度都呈正相关--与分离/恐慌和羞辱/拒绝焦虑关系最密切，而认知移情与社交焦虑、分离/恐慌焦虑呈负相关。情感和认知共情与焦虑之间的关系部分由抑郁症状介导。没有证据表明性别的调节作用已经被发现。结论：我们的研究结果表明，与移情相关的过程可能在焦虑症状的发展或维持中发挥作用。
Background and objectives: A better understanding of the relationships between empathy and internalizing disorders is needed to plan therapeutic interventions for children and adolescents. Several studies have revealed positive relations of internalizing symptoms to personal distress and affective empathy. However, there is a lack of studies that take into account the multidimensional nature of anxiety in its relation to empathy.Design: Structural equation modeling was used to test the moderated mediation model of the relations between empathy, depression and anxiety dimensions and the moderating role of gender on these associations in inpatient adolescents.Method: A total of 403 inpatient adolescents aged 12-17 years completed the Basic Empathy Scale, the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children, and the Beck Depression Inventory-II.Results: Affective empathy was positively related to all the anxiety dimensions - most strongly to separation/panic and humiliation/rejection anxiety, whereas cognitive empathy was negatively related to social and separation/panic anxiety. Relations between affective and cognitive empathy and anxiety were partly mediated by depressive symptoms. No evidence of a moderating role of gender has been found.Conclusions: Our results suggest that processes associated with empathy may play a role in the development or maintenance of anxiety symptoms.