Relationship between empathy and big-five personality factors in a college student sample
Empathy has been associated with many psychological variables such as prosocial behavior, aggression, and intergroup relations. In our study the relationship between empathy and the big five personality model was evaluated. The general hypothesis in our study is that empathy is positively associated...
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author | Iacovella, Jorge Daniel Díaz-Lázaro, Carlos Miguel Richard´s, María Marta |
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description | Empathy has been associated with many psychological variables such as prosocial behavior, aggression, and intergroup relations. In our study the relationship between empathy and the big five personality model was evaluated. The general hypothesis in our study is that empathy is positively associated with agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness; while negatively associated with extraversion and not associated with neuroticism. The sample consisted of 117 male and female university students between 21 and 60 years old, assessed with regionally validated measures. Bivariate correlations and a hierarchical multiple regression were used to test the hypotheses. The effects of gender were controlled in the first step of the regression analysis. Consistent with the hypotheses, agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness were positively correlated with empathy. In the multiple regression analysis, agreeableness, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and extraversion also made statistically significant contributions in the prediction of empathy. |
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spelling | oai:ojs.revistas.unc.edu.ar:article-90382019-05-27T19:14:54Z Relationship between empathy and big-five personality factors in a college student sample Relación entre la empatía y los cinco grandes factores de personalidad en una muestra de estudiantes universitarios Iacovella, Jorge Daniel Díaz-Lázaro, Carlos Miguel Richard´s, María Marta empathy personality big five model empatía personalidad modelo de los cinco grandes Psicología de las Emociones Empathy has been associated with many psychological variables such as prosocial behavior, aggression, and intergroup relations. In our study the relationship between empathy and the big five personality model was evaluated. The general hypothesis in our study is that empathy is positively associated with agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness; while negatively associated with extraversion and not associated with neuroticism. The sample consisted of 117 male and female university students between 21 and 60 years old, assessed with regionally validated measures. Bivariate correlations and a hierarchical multiple regression were used to test the hypotheses. The effects of gender were controlled in the first step of the regression analysis. Consistent with the hypotheses, agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness were positively correlated with empathy. In the multiple regression analysis, agreeableness, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and extraversion also made statistically significant contributions in the prediction of empathy. La empatía ha sido relacionada con un sin número de variables psicológicas, entre ellas el comportamiento prosocial, la agresión, y las relaciones intergrupales. En nuestro estudio, se evaluó la asociación entre la empatía y el modelo de los cinco grandes factores de personalidad. Como hipótesis general se afirma que la empatía se encuentra asociada de manera positiva con la amabilidad, la apertura a la experiencia, y la responsabilidad; mientras que de forma negativa con la extraversión y no estaría relacionada con el neuroticismo. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 117 estudiantes universitarios de ambos sexos, de entre 21 y 60 años de edad evaluados con instrumentos validados en el contexto regional. Se utilizaron análisis de correlaciones bivariadas y un análisis de regresión múltiple jerárquico para contrastar las hipótesis. Se controló el género de los participantes en el primer paso del análisis de regresión. Los resultados mostraron que, en coincidencia con las hipótesis planteadas, la amabilidad, la apertura a la experiencia, y la responsabilidad estuvieron positivamente asociadas a la empatía. A vez, el análisis de regresión múltiple jerárquica halló que la amabilidad, la apertura a la experiencia, la responsabilidad, y la extraversión son predictores del nivel de empatía. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 2015-07-22 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Estudio descriptivo correlacional transversal application/pdf application/msword https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/racc/article/view/9038 10.32348/1852.4206.v7.n2.9038 Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences; Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015): Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento; 14-21 Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento; Vol. 7 Núm. 2 (2015): Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento; 14-21 1852-4206 10.32348/1852.4206.v7.n2 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/racc/article/view/9038/Iacovella%20et%20al https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/racc/article/view/9038/9038 Derechos de autor 2015 Jorge Daniel Iacovella, Carlos Miguel Díaz-Lázaro, María Marta Richard´s |
spellingShingle | empathy personality big five model empatía personalidad modelo de los cinco grandes Psicología de las Emociones Iacovella, Jorge Daniel Díaz-Lázaro, Carlos Miguel Richard´s, María Marta Relationship between empathy and big-five personality factors in a college student sample |
title | Relationship between empathy and big-five personality factors in a college student sample |
title_alt | Relación entre la empatía y los cinco grandes factores de personalidad en una muestra de estudiantes universitarios |
title_full | Relationship between empathy and big-five personality factors in a college student sample |
title_fullStr | Relationship between empathy and big-five personality factors in a college student sample |
title_full_unstemmed | Relationship between empathy and big-five personality factors in a college student sample |
title_short | Relationship between empathy and big-five personality factors in a college student sample |
title_sort | relationship between empathy and big five personality factors in a college student sample |
topic | empathy personality big five model empatía personalidad modelo de los cinco grandes Psicología de las Emociones |
topic_facet | empathy personality big five model empatía personalidad modelo de los cinco grandes Psicología de las Emociones |
url | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/racc/article/view/9038 |
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