Personal factors related to compassion fatigue in health professionals

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 595-609

  Zeidner, Moshe ^a   Hadar, Dafna ^a   Matthews, Gerald ^b   Roberts, Richard D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

compassion fatigue; coping; emotional intelligence; empathy; secondary traumatization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 84886445559     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2013.777045     Document Type: Article

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