Don’t let your training ruin your education. An investigation into levels of emotional empathy at the British School of Osteopathy
Item
- Title
- Don’t let your training ruin your education. An investigation into levels of emotional empathy at the British School of Osteopathy
- Author(s)
- Leighton Chris
- Abstract
- The purpose of this dissertation was to establish whether there is a loss of emotional empathy in students as they pass through the BSc (Hons) course at the British School of Osteopathy. It was also intended to measure levels between the sexes, and between younger and older students. This was achieved by comparing questionnaire responses from the 1st year and 4th year students at the school, to a pre-validated questionnaire (The Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale by Mehrabian, 1996). The 2 full year groups were investigated and comprised of approximately 60 to 80 students in each. A loss of emotional empathy during training was found as the 4th year students scored significantly lower scores than the 1st years. Female students were shown, across all subjects, to be more emotionally empathic than male students. When tested by year group, however, females were only significantly more empathic than males in the 4th year, and not in the 1st year. In neither year group did the older students obtain higher scores than the younger ones. Because these reduced empathy levels may be carried into the clinical situations that students encounter, it is the author's opinion that a greater focus should be made upon communication skills as far as the course syllabus is concerned.
- Abstract
- presented at
- British School of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 2000
- Date Submitted
- 31.7.2000 00:00:00
- Type
- undergraduate_project
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 12178
- Inst-Identifier
- 780
- Keywords
- Osteopathic Education,Osteopathic Students,Empathy,Emotions,Doctor,Patient Relationships
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- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Leighton Chris, “Don’t let your training ruin your education. An investigation into levels of emotional empathy at the British School of Osteopathy”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed April 29, 2024, https://www.osteopathicresearch.com/s/orw/item/2282