TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schreckenbach, Teresa
A1  - Ochsendorf, Falk
A1  - Sterz, Jasmina
A1  - Rüsseler, Miriam
A1  - Bechstein, Wolf Otto
A1  - Bender, Bernd
A1  - Bechtoldt, Myriam
T1  - Emotion recognition and extraversion of medical students interact to predict their empathic communication perceived by simulated patients
T2  - BMC medical education
N2  - Background: This study assessed the impact of medical students’ emotion recognition ability and extraversion on their empathic communication, as perceived by simulated patients in a training context.
Methods: This study used a crossed-effect data structure and examined 245 students in their fourth year of medical school. The students’ personality traits were assessed based on a self-assessment questionnaire of the short form of the Big Five Inventory; their emotion recognition ability was measured using a performance test (Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy-2, Adult Facial Expressions). Simulated patients evaluated the medical students’ empathic communication.
Results: Students with a combination of high emotion recognition ability and extraversion received more positive ratings from simulated patients than their fellow students with a combination of emotion recognition ability and low extraversion. The main effects of emotion recognition or extraversion were not sufficient to yield similar effects. There were no other effects related to the remaining Big Five variables.
Conclusions: The results support the hypothesis that to build rapport with patients, medical staff need to combine emotional capabilities with a dispositional interest in interpersonal encounters.
KW  - Big five
KW  - Emotional recognition
KW  - Personality
KW  - Simulated patients
KW  - Medical education
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47690
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-476904
SN  - 1472-6920
N1  - Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
VL  - 18
IS  - 1, Art. 237
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -