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Empathy, Affective and Motivational Style, and Cardiac Responses

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2006, v.18 no.1, pp.21-37


& (2006). Empathy, Affective and Motivational Style, and Cardiac Responses. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 18(1), 21-37.
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Abstract

Two studies were conducted to investigate the affective, motivational and physiological correlates of empathy. In study 1, participants completed PANAS, BAS/BIS and empathy scales. the data were summarized through both correlational analysis and path analysis method. BAS was significantly associated with empathy, but both NA and BIS were equally related to alexithymia. The capacity for empathy was inversely related alexithymia. In study 2, the effects of empathy, emotional stimuli and sex on heart rate variability(HRV) were examined. participants were assigned to either high empathy group or low empathy group based on empathy test score. During baseline and viewing the video clips, HRV was recorded by means of electrocardiograph. Participants who had higher empathy reported more relevant subjective feeling and exhibited more significant reduction of respiratory sinus arrhythmia(RSA) level during viewing emotional video clips than those who had lower empathy. Heart rate and low-frequency power spectral density(LF PSD) were unrelated to empathy. Women showed higher reduction of RSA　level to the emotional video clips than men. These findings suggests that empathy is associated with global positive personality traits and high level of empathy is related with high degree of RSA reactivity to emotional stimuli. Implications for the study of affective and motivational style and RSA in empathy were discussed.

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Empathy, PA, NA, BAS, BIS, HRV, RSA, 공감, 긍정적 정서, 부정적 정서, 행동활성화, 행동억제, 호흡 공동 부정맥, Empathy, PA, NA, BAS, BIS, HRV, RSA

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