Gonçalves-Pereira Manuel, Trancas Bruno, Loureiro José, Papoila Ana, Caldas-de-Almeida José Miguel
Department of Mental Health, CEDOC Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, FCM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Psychol Rep. 2013 Feb;112(1):73-88. doi: 10.2466/17.13.PR0.112.1.73-88.
Professionalism and empathy are crucial in clinical settings. An association would be expected between empathic attitudes and altruistic motivations for a medical education. However, data is scarce in first-year students, and a previous small-scale study did not fully confirm the hypothesis that person-oriented motives would have a strong relationship to empathy. The present study tested this association in a larger sample. 202 first-year medical students (M age = 19.0 yr., SD = 2.7; 67.3% women) were assessed cross-sectionally, using the Vaglum and colleagues' indexes on motives for choosing medicine (security/status, person-orientation, and interest in the natural sciences) and the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy for students. There was a weak association between empathy and person-orientation, but the evidence regarding links between empathy and the three motivation scores was low overall. In this Portuguese sample there was not a clear-cut association between empathy and motivations for medical school.
在临床环境中，专业素养和同理心至关重要。医学教育中，人们预期共情态度与利他动机之间存在关联。然而，关于一年级学生的数据很少，之前的一项小规模研究并未完全证实以人为本的动机与同理心有很强关联这一假设。本研究在更大样本中检验了这种关联。对202名一年级医学生（平均年龄=19.0岁，标准差=2.7；67.3%为女性）进行了横断面评估，使用了瓦格鲁姆及其同事关于选择医学动机的指标（安全感/地位、以人为本和对自然科学的兴趣）以及杰斐逊医学生同理心量表。同理心与以人为本之间存在微弱关联，但总体而言，关于同理心与三个动机得分之间联系的证据不足。在这个葡萄牙样本中，同理心与医学院学习动机之间没有明确的关联。
