Open AccessEmpatía y funcionamiento familiar en estudiantes de medicina de la Universidad de Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador
Author(s) -
Yolanda Dávila Pontón,
Ximena VélezCalvo,
Ambar Celleri Gomezcoello,
Juan Aguilera Muñoz,
Víctor Patricio Díaz Narváez,
Aracelis CalzadillaNúñez,
Alejandro ReyesReyes,
Pilar Torres Martínez
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
salud/salud uninorte
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2011-7531
pISSN - 0120-5552
DOI - 10.14482/sun.36.3.152.41
Subject(s) - empathy , psychology , style (visual arts) , exploratory factor analysis , compassion , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychometrics , social psychology , theology , philosophy , archaeology , history
Objective: To explore the distribution of general and particular levels of empathy among the different family functioning styles of medical students of the University of Azuay in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador. Materials and methods: Exploratory and cross-sectional study. Student empathy levels were measured through the Jefferson Medical Empathy Scale, S-version in Spanish and family functioning through the Family Functioning Scale Faces-20 in a sample of 278 medical students. The comparison of data was carried out by means of analysis of bifactorial variance model III. The level of significance used was ?? 0.05 and 1- ? ? 0.20. Results: The analysis of the general empathy variance was significant (p 0.05). On the other hand, it was found that extreme family functioning styles have empathy values ??greater than the intermediate style, with significant differences between them (p <0.05). Conclusion: There is a relationship between the type of family functioning and empathy. Extreme family functioning style have higher empathy values ??than intermedium families. Regarding the gender factor, these differences were not presented