Mediating effects of empathy ability between personality characteristics and humanistic care ability of nursing undergraduates
10.3760/cma.j.cn115682-20200413-02685
- VernacularTitle:共情能力在护理本科生人格特征与人文关怀能力间的中介效应分析
- Author:
Ruihong GUO
1
;
Yongfang WANG
;
Liping REN
Author Information
1. 济宁医学院护理学院 272067
- Keywords:
Students, nursing;
Empathy ability;
Personality characteristics;
Humanistic care ability;
Mediating effect
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2020;26(27):3822-3827
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To explore the mediating effect of empathy ability between personality characteristics and humanistic care ability of nursing undergraduates.Methods:The convenient sampling method was adopted to select 490 nursing undergraduates from the freshman to senior year of school of nursing in a medical university from June to July 2019 as the research objects. General information questionnaire, Caring Ability Inventory (CAI) , the Jefferson Scale of Physi-cian Empathy-Nursing Student (JSPE-NS) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised Short Scale Chinese (EPQ-RSC) were used to conduct the questionnaire survey. A total of 490 questionnaires were issued and 435 valid questionnaires were recovered.Results:CAI score of 435 nursing undergraduates was (184.38±19.49) . The results of Sobel-test showed that the empathy ability of nursing students had a partial mediating effect between extroversion and neurotic personality characteristics and humanistic care ability, with effect values of 16.0% and 23.0%, respectively.Conclusions:The humanistic care ability of nursing students is at a low level, and the empathy ability plays a part of mediating role among the extroversion and neurotic personality characteristics and humanistic care ability of nursing undergraduates. Nursing educators can change the influence of extroversion and neurotic personality characteristics on the humanistic care ability by improving the empathy of nursing students, thereby improving the humanistic care ability of nursing undergraduates.
