I feel so sorry!: tapping the joint influence of empathy and personal distress on helping behavior
Entidad
UAM. Departamento de Psicología Social y MetodologíaEditor
Springer New York LLCFecha de edición
2012-05-15Cita
10.1007/s11031-012-9302-9
Motivation and Emotion 37.2 (2013): 335-345
ISSN
0146-7239 (print); 1573-6644 (online)DOI
10.1007/s11031-012-9302-9Financiado por
The research was financed by two grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) PSI2008-04849/PSIC and PSI2011-28720.Proyecto
Gobierno de España. PSI2008-04849/PSIC; Gobierno de España. PSI2011-28720Versión del editor
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11031-012-9302-9Materias
Empathy; Personal distress; Helping behavior; PsicologíaNota
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© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012Resumen
Observing a person in need usually provokes a compound and dynamic emotional experience made up of empathy and personal distress which, in turn, may influence
helping behavior. As the exclusive use of rating scales to measure these two emotions does not permit the analysis of their concurrent evolution, we added the analogical
emotional scale (AES) in order to measure how these two emotions evolve throughout the emotional experience, from its onset to its conclusion. Therefore, in two studies, the concurrence of empathy and personal distress was induced, both rating scales and AES were used, and participants were given an unexpected opportunity to help. Two effects were found. First, the helping behavior was lower when personal distress prevailed over empathy at the end of the experience (Studies 1 and 2). Second, this ‘‘end’’ effect was coherent with the nature of the different motives evoked by personal distress and empathy—directed to increasing either one’s own welfare (egoistic) or the victim’s
welfare (altruism) (Study 2). These results support the usefulness of combining the rating scales and the AES for gaining a better understanding of the nature and behavioral consequences of complex, compound and dynamic emotional experiences.
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