Emotion recognition and extraversion of medical students interact to predict their empathic communication perceived by simulated patients
- 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.
Author: | Teresa SchreckenbachORCiDGND, Falk OchsendorfORCiDGND, Jasmina SterzORCiDGND, Miriam RüsselerORCiDGND, Wolf Otto BechsteinORCiDGND, Bernd Bender, Myriam BechtoldtORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-476904 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-018-1342-8 |
ISSN: | 1472-6920 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30314497 |
Parent Title (English): | BMC medical education |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Place of publication: | London |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Date of first Publication: | 2018/10/11 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2018/10/16 |
Tag: | Big five; Emotional recognition; Medical education; Personality; Simulated patients |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 1, Art. 237 |
Page Number: | 10 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 10 |
Note: | 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. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 43918634X |
Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Medizin |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |