Clinical Empathy and Dispositional Empathy among Medical Professionals

Abstract

The present study aims to understand the level of Clinical empathy and Dispositional empathy among doctors. Empathy becomes more important when talking in the health provider sector, because this is where it comes in action. Data was collected from 100 doctors from various specializations across different hospitals in Delhi. The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSE), the HP version of this was used to assess the clinician’s empathy as this focuses on empathy in clinical setting. And the International Reactivity Index (IRI) (Davis, 1980, 1983) was used for measuring dispositional empathy. This study explores correlation between empathy and dispositional empathy. Results show that Clinical empathy and Dispositional empathy were significantly related.