Analysis on undergraduate nursing students’ empathy and altruistic behavior
Bai Wenhui
Zhang Ruixing
Sun Xiaoyu
Abstract：Obj ective:To know about the status quo of empathy and altru-ism of different grades of undergraduate nursing students and analyze the correlation between them.Methods:A total of 299 undergraduate nursing students in grade 1~3 were investigated by using the college students’ empathy scales and college students’altruistic behavior scale.Results:There was no statistical significance in the empathy scores among different grades of undergraduate nursing students(P>0.05),and there was statis-tical significance in the emotional empathy scores among the different gen-ders of nursing students(P<0.001);There was statistical significance in the altruistic behavior scores of different grade undergraduate nursing students(P>0.05);The total scores of empathy and each dimension score (cognitive empathy,emotional empathy,behavior empathy )were respec-tively positively correlated with the total scores of the altruistic behaviors (P<0.001).Conclusion:To carry out the empathy education in nursing education as soon as possible and select empathy training ways pertinently is the effective way to promote the altruistic behavior of nursing students.
Keywords：nursing studentsempathyaltruistic behavior
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：2( 2588-2589 )