Empatia a postawy wobec przemocy – doniesienie z badań

Beata Pastwa-Wojciechowska; Maria Kaźmierczak; Magdalena Błażek

doi:10.18778/1427-969X.19.08

Authors

Beata Pastwa-Wojciechowska Uniwersytet Gdański, Wydział Nauk Społecznych, Instytut Psychologii
Maria Kaźmierczak Uniwersytet Gdański, Wydział Nauk Społecznych, Instytut Psychologii
Magdalena Błażek Uniwersytet Gdański, Wydział Nauk Społecznych, Instytut Psychologii

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1427-969X.19.08

Keywords:

empathy, attitudes, violence

Abstract

The attitudes towards violence were examined in the context of three-demensional model of empathy. In the presented study participated 575 persons (356 women and 199 men). The participants filled out three questionnaires: Attitudes Toward Violence Questionnaire, Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Questionnaire, and Emphatic Sensitiveness Scale (SWE) to measure three dimensions of empathy: perspective taking, emphatic concern, and personal distress. The results of the study implicate that empathy is associated with attitudes towards violence in general, as well as in the intimate relationship. Perspective taking and empathic concern were negatively associated with the general results in the attitudes towards violence questionnaires, while personal distress was associated positively. Moreover, the results indicate sex differences – in the group of men perspective taking and empathy are higher correlated. Our findings prove that a multidimensional approach to empathy has a potential to broader our understanding of attitudes towards violence.

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