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¹Health Science Doctorte, Executive Director, Fundación Mexicana de Ciencia e Investigación CT, Mexico.

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Summary

Personality traits significantly influence empathy in healthcare professionals. Understanding these links, particularly kindness and openness, can improve patient care and training curricula.

Keywords:

Affective empathy Cognitive empathy Empathy Empatía Empatía afectiva Empatía cognitiva Public health Salud pública

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Healthcare Education

Background:

Personal factors, including personality and empathy, are crucial in healthcare delivery.
Existing research confirms personality and empathy as key determinants, yet their interplay requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the multifaceted relationship between personality traits and empathy (total, cognitive, and affective) in health science students.
To identify specific personality facets that correlate with different dimensions of empathy, controlling for sociodemographic factors.

Main Methods:

Cross-sectional study design.
Statistical analysis to determine the explanatory power of personality on empathy.
Exploration of associations between specific personality traits (e.g., kindness, openness, neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness) and empathy components.

Main Results:

Personality traits collectively explain a substantial portion of variance in total empathy (33%) and its affective and cognitive components (27%).
Kindness demonstrated the strongest positive association across all empathy levels.
Openness to experience was linked to cognitive empathy and emotional joy; neuroticism correlated with affective empathy and empathic stress; extraversion was associated with affective empathy.
Conscientiousness showed an inverse relationship with empathy.

Conclusions:

The findings underscore the significant impact of personality on empathy within health science education.
Integrating personality and empathy considerations into health science curricula can enhance professional development and healthcare quality.
Targeted interventions based on these linked factors may improve healthcare delivery outcomes.