Androgyny predicts empathy for trainees in medicine.
Data from 65 medical students and residents support the hypothesis that scores on a measure of androgyny are predictive of those on an index of empathy but relatively modest predictive accuracy was observed for sympathetic responses. Further exploration is suggested.
Yarnold
P R
PR
Division of General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611.
Martin
G J
GJ
Soltysik
R C
RC
Nightingale
S D
SD
D000328:Adult; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*