Mediating effects of empathy ability between personality characteristics and humanistic care ability of nursing undergraduates
Guo Ruihong, Wang Yongfang, Ren Liping
Published 2020-09-26
Cite as Chin J Mod Nurs, 2020, 26(27): 3822-3827. DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn115682-20200413-02685
Abstract
ObjectiveTo explore the mediating effect of empathy ability between personality characteristics and humanistic care ability of nursing undergraduates.
MethodsThe convenient sampling method was adopted to select 490 nursing undergraduates from the freshman to senior year of school of nursing in a medical university from June to July 2019 as the research objects. General information questionnaire, Caring Ability Inventory (CAI) , the Jefferson Scale of Physi-cian Empathy-Nursing Student (JSPE-NS) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised Short Scale Chinese (EPQ-RSC) were used to conduct the questionnaire survey. A total of 490 questionnaires were issued and 435 valid questionnaires were recovered.
ResultsCAI score of 435 nursing undergraduates was (184.38±19.49) . The results of Sobel-test showed that the empathy ability of nursing students had a partial mediating effect between extroversion and neurotic personality characteristics and humanistic care ability, with effect values of 16.0% and 23.0%, respectively.
ConclusionsThe humanistic care ability of nursing students is at a low level, and the empathy ability plays a part of mediating role among the extroversion and neurotic personality characteristics and humanistic care ability of nursing undergraduates. Nursing educators can change the influence of extroversion and neurotic personality characteristics on the humanistic care ability by improving the empathy of nursing students, thereby improving the humanistic care ability of nursing undergraduates.
Key words:
Students, nursing; Empathy ability; Personality characteristics; Humanistic care ability; Mediating effect
Contributor Information
Guo Ruihong
School of Nursing, Jining Medical University, Jining 272067, China
Wang Yongfang
School of Nursing, Jining Medical University, Jining 272067, China
Ren Liping
School of Nursing, Jining Medical University, Jining 272067, China