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The Key Role of Empathy in the Relationship between Age and Social Support
Aging involves several changes depending on genetic and behavioral factors, such as lifestyle and the number and quality of social relationships, which in turn can be influenced by empathy. Here, the change in the perceived social support across the lifespan as a function of empathy was investigated...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10487866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37685497 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11172464 |
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author | Guariglia, Paola Palmiero, Massimiliano Giannini, Anna Maria Piccardi, Laura |
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description | Aging involves several changes depending on genetic and behavioral factors, such as lifestyle and the number and quality of social relationships, which in turn can be influenced by empathy. Here, the change in the perceived social support across the lifespan as a function of empathy was investigated, considering the mediating role of empathy after controlling for gender and education. In total, 441 people (18–91 years old) filled in the Italian short version of the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL-12), the Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ6), as well as the Empathy Questionnaire (EQ), and the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test (RMET). The mediation analyses with ISEL-12 showed that age and the EQ fully mediated the relationship between age and appraisal, belonging, and tangible scores. Further, the EQ fully mediated only the relationship between age and SSQ6-People. These results showed that empathic skills are key in the relationships between age and social support. This suggests that empathy can trigger social support and, ultimately, well-being if stimulated across the lifespan, especially from a young age; this would help to form the socio-emotional competence across the years as a sort of cushion that can be useful in the older to fulfill active aging. |
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spelling | pubmed-104878662023-09-09 The Key Role of Empathy in the Relationship between Age and Social Support Guariglia, Paola Palmiero, Massimiliano Giannini, Anna Maria Piccardi, Laura Healthcare (Basel) Article Aging involves several changes depending on genetic and behavioral factors, such as lifestyle and the number and quality of social relationships, which in turn can be influenced by empathy. Here, the change in the perceived social support across the lifespan as a function of empathy was investigated, considering the mediating role of empathy after controlling for gender and education. In total, 441 people (18–91 years old) filled in the Italian short version of the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL-12), the Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ6), as well as the Empathy Questionnaire (EQ), and the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test (RMET). The mediation analyses with ISEL-12 showed that age and the EQ fully mediated the relationship between age and appraisal, belonging, and tangible scores. Further, the EQ fully mediated only the relationship between age and SSQ6-People. These results showed that empathic skills are key in the relationships between age and social support. This suggests that empathy can trigger social support and, ultimately, well-being if stimulated across the lifespan, especially from a young age; this would help to form the socio-emotional competence across the years as a sort of cushion that can be useful in the older to fulfill active aging. MDPI 2023-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10487866/ /pubmed/37685497 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11172464 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Guariglia, Paola Palmiero, Massimiliano Giannini, Anna Maria Piccardi, Laura The Key Role of Empathy in the Relationship between Age and Social Support |
title | The Key Role of Empathy in the Relationship between Age and Social Support |
title_full | The Key Role of Empathy in the Relationship between Age and Social Support |
title_fullStr | The Key Role of Empathy in the Relationship between Age and Social Support |
title_full_unstemmed | The Key Role of Empathy in the Relationship between Age and Social Support |
title_short | The Key Role of Empathy in the Relationship between Age and Social Support |
title_sort | key role of empathy in the relationship between age and social support |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10487866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37685497 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11172464 |
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