The role of the emotive, moral, and cognitive components for the prediction of medical students’ empathic behavior in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

Tanja Graupe*, Patrick Giemsa, Katharina Schaefer, Martin R. Fischer, Jan Willem Strijbos, Claudia Kiessling

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Objectives: Investigate whether medical students’ emotive abilities, attitudes, and cognitive empathic professional abilities predict empathic behavior in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). Methods: Linear and multiple regressions were used to test concurrent validity between Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE-S), Situational Judgement Test (SJT-expert-based score (SJT-ES), SJT-theory-based score (SJT-TS)) and empathic behavior in an OSCE measured by Berlin Global Rating (BGR) and Verona Coding Definitions for Emotion Sequences (VR-CoDES). Results: Highest amounts of explained variance of empathic behavior measured by VR-CoDES were found for the SJT-ES (R2 = 0.125) and SJT-TS (R2 = 0.131). JSPE-S (R2 = 0.11) and SJT-ES (R2 = 0.10) explained the highest amount of variance in empathic behavior as measured by BGR. Stepwise multiple regression improved the model for BGR by including SJT-ES and JSPE-S, explaining 16.2% of variance. Conclusions: The instrument measuring the emotive component (IRI) did not significantly predict empathic behavior, whereas instruments measuring moral (JSPE-S) and cognitive components (SJT) significantly predicted empathic behavior. However, the explained variance was small. Practice implications: The instrument measuring the emotive component (IRI) did not significantly predict empathic behavior, whereas instruments measuring moral (JSPE-S) and cognitive components (SJT) significantly predicted empathic behavior. However, the explained variance was small. In a longitudinal assessment program, triangulation of different instruments assessing empathy offers a rich perspective of learner's empathic abilities. Empathy training should include the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes, and behavior to support learner's empathic behaviors.

Originele taal-2English
Pagina's (van-tot)3103-3109
Aantal pagina's7
TijdschriftPatient Education and Counseling
Volume105
Nummer van het tijdschrift10
DOI's
StatusPublished - okt.-2022

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