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- Empathy plays a crucial role in social communication and is linked to mental health, romantic relationships, and parenting.
- Research involved 566 participants who reported their empathy, stress levels, and psychosocial outcomes at various points over time.
- Results showed that while both trait and state empathy impacted these outcomes, state empathy had a stronger influence, particularly with emotional empathy being more significant under stress.
Article Abstract
Introduction: Empathy is a complex, multifaceted ability allowing for the most basic forms of social communication and plays a prominent role in multiple aspects of everyday lives. In this intensive longitudinal study, we assessed how empathy interacts with stress to predict central domains of psychosocial functioning: mental health, romantic relationships, and parenting.
Methods: Fluctuations and individual differences in empathy were assessed across eight time points, where participants from the general population ( = 566) self-reported their empathy, stress, depressive symptoms, romantic satisfaction, and parental functioning.
Results: Both trait and state aspects of empathy were associated with all psychosocial outcomes, with state empathy showing a stronger effect. Additionally, empathy components interacted with stress-emotional empathy better-predicted outcomes under high stress, while cognitive empathy under low stress.
Discussion: Our findings advance the theoretical understanding of empathy, emphasizing the effects of state-dependent empathy fluctuations on our everyday mental and social lives.
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