title: Feeling at hospitals: perspective-taking, empathy and personal distress among professional nurses and nursing students.
abstract: When facing a person in need, professional nurses will tend to adopt an objective perspective compared to nursing students who, instead, will tend to adopt an imagine-other perspective. Consequently, professional nurses will show lower vicarious emotional reaction such as empathy and distress. Using samples from Spain (Studies 1 and 2) and United states (Study 3), we compared perspective taking strategies and the emotional responses of nurses and nursing students when perceiving a sick child (Study 1) and a sick adult (Studies 2 and 3). Taken together, the results supported our hypotheses. We discuss the applied value of considering the relationship between perspective-taking and its emotional consequences for the nursing profession.
authors: Departamento de Psicología Social y Metodología, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. belen.lopez@uam.es
authors: Belén
authors: B
authors: López-Pérez
authors: Tamara
authors: T
authors: Ambrona
authors: Jennifer
authors: J
authors: Gregory
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Stocks
authors: Luis
authors: L
authors: Oceja
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004506:Education, Nursing; D004644:Emotions; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013030:Spain; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013781:Texas