Relationship between empathic responding and its clinical characteristics in patients with major depressive disorder

Ekinci, Okan; Ekinci, Aslı

doi:10.5350/dajpn2016290206

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“…Related, insufficient sleep impairs mood. Furthermore, impaired positive mood can influence helping, in part by lowering empathic sensitivity to the needs or distress of others [71], also seen in states of clinical depression [72][73][74]. Though the reductions in helping behavior observed in Studies 1 and 2 remained significant when accounting for corresponding changes in positive and negative mood, affective changes linked to insufficient sleep may nevertheless play a moderating or mediating role in the broader deficits reported in varied prosocial behaviors linked to a lack of sleep, beyond the abatement of helping.…”

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Sleep loss leads to the withdrawal of human helping across individuals, groups, and large-scale societies

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Humans help each other. This fundamental feature of homo sapiens has been one of the most powerful forces sculpting the advent of modern civilizations. But what determines whether humans choose to help one another? Across 3 replicating studies, here, we demonstrate that sleep loss represents one previously unrecognized factor dictating whether humans choose to help each other, observed at 3 different scales (within individuals, across individuals, and across societies). First, at an individual level, 1 night of sleep loss triggers the withdrawal of help from one individual to another. Moreover, fMRI findings revealed that the withdrawal of human helping is associated with deactivation of key nodes within the social cognition brain network that facilitates prosociality. Second, at a group level, ecological night-to-night reductions in sleep across several nights predict corresponding next-day reductions in the choice to help others during day-to-day interactions. Third, at a large-scale national level, we demonstrate that 1 h of lost sleep opportunity, inflicted by the transition to Daylight Saving Time, reduces real-world altruistic helping through the act of donation giving, established through the analysis of over 3 million charitable donations. Therefore, inadequate sleep represents a significant influential force determining whether humans choose to help one another, observable across micro- and macroscopic levels of civilized interaction. The implications of this effect may be non-trivial when considering the essentiality of human helping in the maintenance of cooperative, civil society, combined with the reported decline in sufficient sleep in many first-world nations.

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Sleep loss leads to the withdrawal of human helping across individuals, groups, and large-scale societies

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“…According to the emotion-specificity hypothesis, psychomotor agitation or retardation is associated with deficits in emotion recognition ( 66 ), which may be due to the low ability of empathic concern ( 67 ). Meanwhile, the impairment in empathic concern reflecting negative ruminations could make people more likely to have thoughts of death ( 68 ). As the pandemic has brought an increase in suicides and a decrease in empathy ( 69 ), strategies to show more empathic concern for others might reduce depression, particularly suicidal thoughts , during the continuity of the pandemic ( 70 ).…”

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The relationship between dimensions of empathy and symptoms of depression among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A network analysis

Liu

Wulandari

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Front. Public Health

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BackgroundThe relationship between different dimensions of empathy and individual symptoms of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic remains unclear, despite the established link between empathy and depression. The network analysis offers a novel framework for visualizing the association between empathy and depression as a complex system consisting of interacting nodes. In this study, we investigated the nuanced associations between different dimensions of empathy and individual symptoms of depression using a network model during the pandemic.Methods1,177 students completed the Chinese version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), measuring dimensions of empathy, and the Chinese version of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), measuring symptoms of depression. First, we investigated the nuanced associations between different dimensions of empathy and individual depressive symptoms. Then, we calculated the bridge expected influence to examine how different dimensions of empathy may activate or deactivate the symptoms of depression cluster. Finally, we conducted a network comparison test to explore whether network characteristics such as empathy-depression edges and bridge nodes differed between genders.ResultsFirst, our findings showed that personal distress was positively linked to symptoms of depression. These symptoms involved psychomotor agitation or retardation (edge weight = 0.18), sad mood (edge weight = 0.12), trouble with concentrating (edge weight = 0.11), and guilt (edge weight = 0.10). Perspective-taking was found to be negatively correlated with trouble with concentrating (edge weight = −0.11). Empathic concern was negatively associated with suicidal thoughts (edge weight = −0.10) and psychomotor agitation or retardation (edge weight = −0.08). Fantasy was not connected with any symptoms of depression. Second, personal distress and empathic concern were the most positive and negative influential nodes that bridged empathy and depression (values of bridge expected influence were 0.51 and −0.19 and values of predictability were 0.24 and 0.24, respectively). The estimates of the bridge expected influence on the nodes were adequately stable (correlation stability coefficient = 0.75). Finally, no sex differences in the studied network characteristics were observed.ConclusionsThis study applied network analysis to reveal potential pathways between different dimensions of empathy and individual symptoms of depression. The findings supported the existing theoretical system and contribute to the theoretical mechanism. We have also made efforts to suggest interventions and preventions based on personal distress and empathic concern, the two most important dimensions of empathy for depressive symptoms. These efforts may help Chinese university students to adopt better practical methods to overcome symptoms of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…Leahy stated that rumination was associated with less comprehensibility, more guilt, less control, more demand for rationality, and less consensus with others [17]. A study conducted by Ekinci et al on patients with alcohol dependence found that rumination and anxiety symptoms were associated [25].…”

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“…The belief that emotions causing loss of control in a person result in more anxiety is explained by both cognitive and emotion-focused models. The belief that one has control over one's emotions is associated with less rumination and less anxiety and depression development [25]. In a study examining the role of the emotional schemas in pathological anxiety in Iranian university students, it…”

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The Relationship Between Anxiety Symptoms, Anxiety Sensitivity, and Emotional Schemas in Patients Admitted to Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic

Bas Uluyol,

Senyasar Meterelliyoz

2023

Galician med. j.

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Introduction. Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders being an important cause of disability as they impair the functionality of affected individuals. Our study aimed to evaluate the effects of anxiety sensitivity, which is one of the cognitive structures involved in the etiology and perpetuation of psychopathologies, and emotional schemas, which evaluate how people handle their emotions, on anxiety symptoms. Methods. One hundred participants who were admitted to the outpatient psychiatry clinic, agreed to participate in the study, and met the inclusion criteria were included in the study. The Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-I), Leahy Emotional Schema Scale Turkish Version (LESS-T), and Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI-3) were administered to the participants. Results. A correlation analysis revealed a significant relationship between the BAI score and BDI-I score, ASI-3 total score, and LESS-T Uncontrollability, Weakness, Comprehensibility, Acceptance of Emotions, Rumination, Denial of Emotions, Validation subscale scores (p < 0.05). A logistic regression analysis that examined the risk factors predicting anxiety symptoms in individuals found that increasing BDI-I and ASI-3 total scores had an increasing effect on the development of anxiety, and an increase in the LESS-T Denial of Emotions subscore had a decreasing effect. Conclusions. Determining anxiety sensitivity and emotional schemas in patients with anxiety symptoms may be a guide in identifying and treating the risk factors for the development of anxiety disorders.

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Relationship between empathic responding and its clinical characteristics in patients with major depressive disorder

Cited by 10 publications

References 43 publications

Sleep loss leads to the withdrawal of human helping across individuals, groups, and large-scale societies

Sleep loss leads to the withdrawal of human helping across individuals, groups, and large-scale societies

The relationship between dimensions of empathy and symptoms of depression among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: A network analysis

The Relationship Between Anxiety Symptoms, Anxiety Sensitivity, and Emotional Schemas in Patients Admitted to Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic

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