2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Empathy for excluded individuals: its mechanism and regulation
| Project/Area Number |
25780399
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Educational psychology
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 共感 / 社会的排斥 / 心理的痛み |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this study was to answer the following two research questions. (1) Does empathy cause psychic injury to the empathizer, particularly when they empathize with individuals experiencing social pain? (2) What individual factors regulate maladaptive responses to such vicarious ostracism? The main findings of my experimental studies were that (1) empathy for excluded individuals leads to vicarious social pain, (2) low levels of the need to belong and high levels of well-being lowered empathizers ’maladaptive responses, and (3) empathizers with low socioeconomic status (SES) more accurately identified the target individual’s negative feelings and psychological pain than those with high SES. The finding implied that high SES has negative effects on interpersonal relationships.
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| Free Research Field |
社会心理学・教育心理学
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