Do empathy, perspective-taking, sense of power and personality differ across undergraduate education and are they inter-related?

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 23-31

  Toto, Regina L ^a   Man, Lillian ^a   Blatt, Benjamin ^a   Simmens, Samuel J ^b   Greenberg, Larrie ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Medical students; Personality traits; Perspective taking; Sense of power

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84896589804     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: 15731677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-014-9502-z     Document Type: Article

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