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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Personal distress"”.
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The Mediation of Personal Distress on Negative Television News and Donations
… of a MANOVA showed implicit positive affect, personal distress, and empathic concern to be significant process variables. These process variables were entered into the model as covariates with victim distance being the independent variable and donations being the dependent variable. The …
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Mothers' personal distress and child dysregulation: joint contributions to change in maternal support in an emotionally challenging situation
… the contributions of mothers' self-reported personal distress to two types of change in maternal support during a challenging snack-delay task: (a) within-mother change in support ""in the moment"" (i.e., in intervals immediately following instances of within-child increase in dysregulation); …
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The roles of emotion regulation and metacognition in performance based-empathy
… skills, which are important for effective interpersonal relationships. Researchers have speculated about the roles of personal distress, emotion regulation, and metacognition in empathic interaction, but the impact of these constructs on empathy has yet to be empirically investigated. This study …
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Predictors of Bystander and Defender Behaviors in Bullying: Maternal Reactions to Child Emotion and Empathy in the United States and South Korea
… Children reported on their empathy (i.e., personal distress and empathic concern) using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index and on their bystander/defender behaviors using the Types of the Conformity Groups in Bullying. For bystander behavior, mothers' unsupportive reactions were …
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Compassion in organizations: sensemaking and embodied experience in emergent relational capability. A phenomenological study in South African human service organizations
… Given these limitations, agents may experience personal distress limiting the capacity for compassion. This study examines agent capacities required for compassion capability in South African human service organizations. The research applies the ontological lens of enaction, an interpretive …
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The Presence of Empathy in Male Completers of a Partner Intervention Program
… including a comparative non-empathic condition, personal distress. Findings revealed that the therapeutic group environment which, used psycho-educational and conscious raising methods emphasized by teaching power and control dynamics, encouraged men's insights and expressions of empathy toward …
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The Effects of Disclosing Childhood Sexual Abuse on an Adult Survivors' Sense of Self-Esteem, Personal Trauma, and Interpersonal Capabilities
… self-esteem levels, levels of trauma, and interpersonal capabilities. Instruments used included the Disclosure of Abuse Scale, Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale, Trauma Symptom Checklist - 40, and the Interpersonal Reactivity Index. The hypotheses of the study included 1) perception of duration and …
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The Relationship Between Level of Empathy and Stress Contagion
… using a global level of empathy and when the Personal Distress dimension of the measure is removed. Personal Distress alone does not moderate the relationship between overall network stress and depressive symptoms. These data fill several gaps in the social network, stress, and empathy …
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The Relationship Between Level of Empathy and Stress Contagion
… using a global level of empathy and when the Personal Distress dimension of the measure is removed. Personal Distress alone does not moderate the relationship between overall network stress and depressive symptoms. These data fill several gaps in the social network, stress, and empathy …
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The Influnence of Empathy Priming and Social Value Orientations On the Motivation For Prosocial Behavior
… to empathy, perspective taking activates personal distress, sadness and/or oneness. Personal distress, sadness and/or oneness then leads to egoistically motivated prosocial behavior (e.g., Maner et al. 2002). The current research examines the motivation for prosocial behavior by using …
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THEORY OF MIND, EMPATHY, AND IDENTITY PROCESSING STYLE: EXAMINING INTERRELATIONSHIPS AND ADVANTAGES OF ACTING EXPERIENCE
… taking, fantasizing, empathic concern, personal distress) of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) was used to measure empathy. It was hypothesized that students with acting experience would perform significantly better than those without acting experience on all measures of ToM and …
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Feelings of doing good for myself or others: Discussing effects of self-conscious emotions on sustainable consumption
… on socially responsible consumption, whereas personal distress did not. As the antecedent of self-conscious emotions, private and public self-consciousness both were positively association with empathic concern, but only public self-consciousness had a significantly positive impact on personal …
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Racial Identity Attitudes as Predictors of Cognitive Correlates of Social anxiety in African Americans
… were all positively related to increased personal distress as indicated by positive relations to fear of negative evaluation, social avoidance and distress, and negative relation to indices of healthy psychological functioning. Internalization attitudes were indicative of healthy …
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Psychological profiles of clerical and non-clerical men who have sexually abused children
… were included in the assessment protocol: the Personal Reactivity Index, the Interpersonal Reaction Inventory, the Assertiveness Inventory, the Locus of Control Inventory, the UCLA Emotional Loneliness Scale, the Self-Esteem Inventory, the Victim Empathy Scale, the Children and Sex Scale, the …
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A bioecological approach to empathy, altruism, and intent to help: developmental, dispositional and contextual factors influence prosocial motivations and intentions
… empathy or egoistic motivations (oneness, personal distress and sadness) and intent to help. Additionally the model included person effects, with the developmental factors of temperament, socialization history and level of moral development, and the dispositional factors of dispositional …
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Justice Across Group Boundaries: Extending Empathy-Motivated Helping to Out-Groups
… helping behaviors, identity considerations, and personal distress were assessed. Findings suggest that instructions to take the perspective of an out-group described as socially cold and incompetent results in significantly less helping compared to a control group. Results are discussed in …
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Investigating the Relation between Empathy and Prosocial Behavior: An Emotion Regulation Framework
… related to prosocial behavior via sympathy or personal distress. Furthermore, this study proposed an emotion regulation framework for understanding the relation between empathy and prosocial behavior, suggesting that one's emotion regulation abilities would cause a differential presentation of …
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Empathy Among Nursing Undergraduates at a Chinese Private University
… nursing undergraduates, this study used the Interpersonal Reactivity Index scale to examine the empathy levels of 644 nursing undergraduates at a private university in China. The findings revealed nursing students at the private university reported moderate levels of empathy, with the highest …
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Predictors of attributions of aggression
… about aggression. Reciprocally, gender, personal distress, fantasy, total empathy and external locus of control were found to be predictive of expressive attributions. The findings were discussed with reference to evolutionary theory and the phenomenological model proposed by Alexander, …
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Salience and Frontoparietal Network Patterns in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
… significant delays in special services, and personal distress to families and caregivers. There is evidence that ASD and ADHD are biologically different for attentional and executive functioning mechanisms, as only half of individuals with co-occurring ASD and ADHD respond to stimulant …
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