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Aylin Yalçın Irmak & Meryem Metinoğlu
Emphatic Tendency Level of
Participating and Non-Participating
Nursing Students to Case Based
Role Play Activities
Copyright © 2017
Republic of Turkey Ministry of Youth and Sports
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Journal of Youth Researches • July 2017 • 5(12) • 162-167
ISSN 2147-8473
Received
| 05 June 2017
Accepted
| 03 June 2017
A N A LY S I S / R E S E A R C H
E X T E N D E D A B S T R A C T
* Assist. Prof. Dr.; Namık Kemal University School of Health Department of Nursing, Tekirdağ,
** Lecturer, Namık Kemal University School of Health Department of Nursing, Tekirdağ,
Aylin Yalçın Irmak
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Meryem Metinoğlu
**
Introduction
Empathy, being the basis of human relations and communication, is the replacement
of oneself with another person, understanding the distinctive character, emotions and
thought, and expressing them (Dökmen, 1994, p. 134-175). Staub (1987) highlights the
two aspects of empathy as cognitive and emotional. Cognitive aspect is to understand
how the other person may feel considering an incidence or situation, and being aware of
these feelings. Emotional aspect, on the other hand, is feeling the emotions of the other
person experiencing an incidence and reflecting this to the person (Staub, 1987, p. 195-
217). Dökmen (1994) also supported the multidimensional approach, and mention about
two aspects of this term as empathic tendency and empathic skills. Emphatic skill states
