社会性因素对疼痛共情的影响

The Influence of Social Factors on Empathy for Pain

共情是一个多重概念,可以指一种心理能力或者一种心理状态,通常来讲,共情指个体感知或想象其他个体的情感,并部分体验到其他个体感受的心理过程。疼痛共情是共情研究的重要部分,因为其拥有较好观测,数量化指标明确的优点,并且疼痛共情在现实生活中也具有重大的意义。而疼痛共情的影响因素则是疼痛共情的研究中的核心。疼痛共情会受到多方面因素的影响,一般来讲包括疼痛者因素、观察者因素以及情境因素。而本文则从另一个角度,社会性因素对疼痛共情的影响来进行讨论。本文主要从性别,社会地位,人际距离以及情绪背景对疼痛共情的影响进行了说明和描述,并且简要介绍了其他社会性因素对疼痛共情的影响。在本文的最后,对社会因素性对疼痛共情的影响的未来研究进行了简短的展望,未来的研究应该更加注重研究内容与理论以及实际的结合。

Empathy is a multiple concept, which can refer to a mental ability or a mental state. Generally speaking, empathy refers to the psychological process in which an individual perceives or imagines the feelings of other individuals and partially experiences the feelings of other individuals. Empathy for pain is an important part of empathy research, because it has the advantages of better observation and clear quantitative indicators, and empathy for pain has great significance in real life. The influencing factors of empathy for pain are the core of the research of empathy for pain. Empathy for pain is affected by a number of factors, including the painful person factors, the observer factors, and situational factors in general. This paper discusses the effect of social factors on empathy for pain from another perspective. In this paper, the effects of gender, social status, interpersonal distance and emotional background on empathy for pain are explained and described, and other social factors on empathy for pain are briefly introduced. At the end of this paper, the future research on the influence of social factors on empathy for pain is briefly prospected. The future research should pay more attention to the combination of research content, theory and practice.