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Empathy as related to motivations for medicine in a sample of first-year medical students.
| dc.contributor.author | Gonçalves-Pereira, M | |
| dc.contributor.author | Trancas, B | |
| dc.contributor.author | Loureiro, J | |
| dc.contributor.author | Papoila, A | |
| dc.contributor.author | Caldas-de-Almeida, JM | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-24T10:28:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-24T10:28:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Professionalism and empathy are crucial in clinical settings. An association would be expected between empathic attitudes and altruistic motivations for a medical education. However, data is scarce in first-year students, and a previous small-scale study did not fully confirm the hypothesis that person-oriented motives would have a strong relationship to empathy. The present study tested this association in a larger sample. 202 first-year medical students (M age = 19.0 yr., SD = 2.7; 67.3% women) were assessed cross-sectionally, using the Vaglum and colleagues' indexes on motives for choosing medicine (security/status, person-orientation, and interest in the natural sciences) and the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy for students. There was a weak association between empathy and person-orientation, but the evidence regarding links between empathy and the three motivation scores was low overall. In this Portuguese sample there was not a clear-cut association between empathy and motivations for medical school. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Psychol Rep. 2013 Feb;112(1):73-88. | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.2466/17.13.PR0.112.1.73-88 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1558-691X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.10/2274 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | SAGE | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Career Choice | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Motivation | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Empathy | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Medical education | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Empathy as related to motivations for medicine in a sample of first-year medical students. | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Thousand Oaks, CA | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Psychological reports | pt_PT |
| rcaap.rights | closedAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |