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T1 Mindfulness and Empathy: Mediating Factors and Gender Differences in a Spanish Sample
A1 Fuente Anuncibay, Raquel de la
A1 González Barbadillo, Ángela
A1 Ortega Sánchez, Delfín
A1 Pizarro Ruiz, Juan Pablo
K1 Mindfulness
K1 Empathy
K1 Mediating effect
K1 Gender
K1 FFMQ
K1 TEQ
K1 Atención plena
K1 Mindfulness (Psychology)
K1 Empatía
K1 Empathy
AB Numerous research studies link mindfulness training to improved empathy. However, few studies focus on the mediating factors of empathy. This work has three objectives: (a) to analyze the possible mediation of mindfulness as a feature in this relation, (b) to analyze the mindfulness factors that mediate in the increase of empathy and (c) to analyze the moderating role of gender. The sample was composed of 246 Spanish-speaking university students (M = 24.08 years, SD = 8.43). The instruments used were the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) and the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ). For data analysis, the indirect effect was calculated using 10000 bootstrap samples for the bias-corrected bootstrap confidence intervals (BCI). The improvement of empathy is mediated by the changes in mindfulness trait (B = 0.233, p < 0.001), disappearing in the presence of this mediator, the direct effect of mindfulness practice on empathy (B = 0.161, p = 0.394). We did not find a differential functioning of this mediation according to gender. Observing and describing are the FFMQ factors that mediate significantly between mindfulness practice and empathy.
PB Frontiers Media
YR 2020
FD 2020-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11770
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11770
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 03-jun-2026