Mediating effect of mindfulness cognition on the development of empathy in a university context

Raquel De la Fuente-Anuncibay, Ángela González-Barbadillo, Jerónimo González-Bernal, Esther Cubo and Juan P PizarroRuiz

PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, issue 4, 1-12

Abstract: Numerous interventions propose mindfulness training as a means of improving empathy. Our aim is to analyse the relationship between mindfulness practice and empathy through the mediating process of trait mindfulness. This sample comprised 264 undergraduate students (x¯=24,13years, SD = 11,39). The instruments used were Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire and Toronto Empathy Questionnaire. The indirect effect was calculated using 10.000 bootstrap samples for the bootstrap confidence intervals corrected for bias. Empathy improvement is mediated by changes in the cognitions derived from mindfulness (B = .346, p .05). Mindfulness interventions that aim to improve empathy should focus on three of its components; observing, describing and nonreactivity to inner experience. Given the significance of the results, the research must be extended to larger samples.

Date: 2019
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