2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Understanding the mechanisms of empathic exclusion in elderly abuse by human service professionals.
| Project/Area Number |
22653086
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Clinical psychology
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| Research Institution | Shizuoka Eiwa Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
HATANO Jun 静岡英和学院大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (10311953)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 介護 / 共感性 / 対人援助 / 組織心理 / 高齢者虐待 |
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| Research Abstract |
Why some human service professionals abuse their clients- This research focused on decreasing empathy for elderly, and examined the mechanisms of “empathic exclusion”. Previous studies suggested that dehumanization research offered effective framework to understand elderly abuse. On the hypothesis that some characteristics of care settings elicit dehumanization of elderly person and decrease empathy, the experimental examination was conducted. The results supported the hypothesis that revealing flesh in care settings reduced humanness of elderly person.
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