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T1 Mediating effect of mindfulness cognition on the development of empathy in a university context
A1 Fuente Anuncibay, Raquel de la
A1 González Barbadillo, Ángela
A1 González Bernal, Jerónimo
A1 Cubo Delgado, Esther
A1 Pizarro Ruiz, Juan Pablo
K1 Neurología
K1 Neurology
K1 Universidades
K1 Universities and colleges
AB Numerous interventions propose mindfulness training as a means of improving empathy. Our aim is to analyse the relationship between mindfulness practice and empathy through the mediating process of trait mindfulness. This sample comprised 264 undergraduate students (, SD = 11,39). The instruments used were Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire and Toronto Empathy Questionnaire. The indirect effect was calculated using 10.000 bootstrap samples for the bootstrap confidence intervals corrected for bias. Empathy improvement is mediated by changes in the cognitions derived from mindfulness (B = .346, p<.01). The direct effect of mindfulness practice on empathy disappears in presence of this mediator (B = .133, p>.05). Mindfulness interventions that aim to improve empathy should focus on three of its components; observing, describing and nonreactivity to inner experience. Given the significance of the results, the research must be extended to larger samples.
PB Public Library of Science
YR 2019
FD 2019-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8786
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8786
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 08-may-2024