• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.55-65
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• 2022

Although humans exist as Homo Empathicus, human society is actually constantly divided and conflicted between groups. The human empathy response is very sensitive to the justice of others, and depending on the level of others' justice, they may feel empathy or schadenfreude to the suffering of them. However, our empathy to others' suffering are not always fair, and have inherent limitations of ingroup-biased empathy. Depending on whether the suffering other persons belongs to an ingroup or an outgroup, we may feel biased empathy or biased schadenfreude to them without even realizing it. Recent advances in information and communication technology facilitate biased access to ingroup-related SNS or ingroup media, thereby deepening the establishment of a more biased semantic information network related groups. These processes, through interacting with the inherent limitation of empathy, can form a vicious cycle of more biased ingroup empathy and ingroup-related activities, and accelerate divisions and conflicts. This research investigated the properties and limitations of empathy by reviewing studies on the neural mechanism of empathy. By examining the relationship between empathy and justice from a neuroscientific point of view, this research tried to illuminate the modern society of division and conflict in a different dimension from the classical perspective of social science.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.189-192
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• 2021

YouTube, the world's largest video sharing platform, is loved by many users in that it provides numerous videos and makes it easy to get helpful information. However, the ratio of like/hate for each video varies according to the subject or upload time, even though they are in the same channel; thus, previous studies try to understand the reason by inspecting some numerical statistics such as the ratio and view count. They can help know how each video is preferred, but there is an explicit limitation to identifying the cause of such preference. Therefore, this study aims to determine the reason that affects the preference through matching between topic words extracted from comments in each video and non-sympathetic types defined in advance. Among the top 10 channels in the field of 'pets' and 'cooking', where outliers occur a lot, the top 10 videos (the threshold of pet: 4.000, the threshold of cooking: 0.723) with the highest ratio were selected. 11,110 comments collected totally, and topics were extracted and matched with non-sympathetic types. The experimental results confirmed that it is possible to predict whether the rate of like/hate would be high or which non-sympathetic type would be by analyzing the comments.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.487-488
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• 2017

본 연구는 간호대학생의 공감능력이 대인관계 유능성에 영향을 미치는 요인을 규명하는 서술적 조사연구이다. 연구대상자는 198명의 간호대학생이었다. 구조화된 자가 보고식 설문지를 이용하여 자료를 수집하였으며, 자료 분석은 SPSS 18.0 WIN 프로그램을 사용하여 빈도와 백분율, 평균과 표준편차, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson co- rrelation coefficient, multiple regression analy- sis를 실시하였다. 연구결과, 연구대상자의 공감능력이 인간관계 유능성과 유의한 정적 상관관계가 있었다. 회귀분석을 실시한 결과, 공감능력은 인간관계 유능성에 영향을 미치는 유의한 요인으로 나타났으며, 공감에 대한 설명력은 30.0%이었다. 결론적으로, 간호대학생의 대인관계 유능성에 영향을 미치는 공감능력 증진을 위한 중재 프로그램을 개발하여 적용할 필요가 있다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.321-329
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• 2018

The aim of this study is to examine the effects on emotional empathy given by type and degree of adolescent participation in recreational activities, and investigate the associated causal relationships. The following conclusions were obtained: First, analyzing the differences in emotional empathy based on demographic characteristics, the results statistically indicated emotional contagion is a subfactor of emotional empathy. Second, analyzing the differences based on participation type, the results statistically indicated emotional contagion is more influential than positive sharing and emotional intervention, which are sub-factors of emotional empathy. Third, analyzing the differences based on participation degree, the variables influencing participation frequency, participation time, and participation period were positive sharing and emotional contagion, rather than emotional intervention. Fourth, analyzing the causal relationship between participation degree and emotional empathy, the results revealed that participation degree affects positive sharing and emotional contagion, which are sub-factors of emotional empathy.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.35-46
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• 2015

Prior research suggested that people generally show stronger intentions to help in-group members because people experience higher levels of empathy for those who are similar to themselves. The present research demonstrated that one's levels of cosmopolitanism would moderate the mediating role of empathy on the relationship between cultural similarities and helping intentions. In particular, it was examined how the mediator (empathy) affected the relation between cultural similarity and helping intention for participants with low to high levels of cosmopolitanism. Results indicated that participants with lower levels of cosmopolitanism showed stronger empathy as targets are more culturally similar to participants' own culture. Participants with higher levels of cosmopolitanism, however, reported the same levels of empathy regardless of targets' cultural similarity. The implications and limitations of the results were discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.435-453
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to develop the Empathy Rating Scale by a third party and examine the validity of the scale. Based on the results of the pilot study, the study 1 focused on developing Empathy Rating Scale by a third party. From the exploratory factor analysis on a total of 15 preliminary items, three fators had been derived: 'Beginning of empathy', 'Process of empathy', 'Result of empathy'. The study 2 identified its validity by confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and discriminant analysis. Those three factors indicated the reasonable fit index by confirmatory factor addition, this scale identified a significant positive relation with authenticity, emotional clarity, and intimacy. On the other hand, it indicated a negative relation with anxiety attachment and rejection attachment. Therefore, the results indicated that this scale on a total of 11 item has a reliable convergent validity. Finally, implication and limitation of this study were discussed in relation with future studies.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.246-255
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting positive psychological capital in clinical nurses. The data were collected from 193 nurses working in the three general hospital located Y city using self-reported questionnaires and November 20 2017 to November 30 2017. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, T-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression with SPSS 20.0 program. Positive psychological capital had a significant positive effect on compassion satisfaction, while Positive psychological capital had a negative effect on burnout. The result of the multiple regression indicates the compassion satisfaction, burnout and job position predict 55.5% (F=30.88, p<.001) of positive psychological capital. Therefore, strategies to decrease burnout and to enhance compassion satisfaction for clinical nurses.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.423-428
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to suggest the necessity of fostering empathy through design education since elementary education in order to develop human resources required in the artificial intelligence society. First we studied the definition, necessity and the present domestic state of design education. Also studied the elements of empathy, its necessity in the age of artificial intelligence, and how children can enhance empathy. Finally, we researched cases of design and empathy education abroad. In conclusion, the Nordic countries have developed social innovations through design and high levels of empathy. Also, design education in the form of playing with the process of communication, discussion and cooperation is important. Based on this study, we hope various design education programs develop that can foster empathy.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.330-338
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• 2014

This study investigated the relationships among hope, empathy and happiness of middle school students. The participants were 383 second year middle school students. The data were analyzed using t-test, Pearson's Correlation Analysis and Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis with SPSS WINDOWS 18.0. The results of this study were as follows: (1) There were significant differences in middle school students' happiness according to the level of hope and empathy. That is, the students who had high levels of hope and empathy had higher happiness than those with a low level of hope and empathy. (2) There were significant positive correlations among hope, empathy and happiness of middle school students. (3) Agency thinking, empathic concern, perspective-taking were significant variables in predicting the happiness of middle school students. The results of this study suggest the need to consider methods to increase a middle school students' hope and empathy, which are examples of an individual's positive inner variables, that enhance the middle school students' happiness.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.647-653
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect of perceived parental empathy in the relationship between self-esteem and adolescent depression. A sample of 437 adolescents completed self-report measures of self-esteem, depression and parental empathy. The collected data were analyzed by hierarchical regression analysis. As a result, parental empathy moderated relationship between self-esteem and depression. And awareness of emotion, empathic emotional reaction, and cold emotional reaction of father had moderating effect on the relationship between self-esteem and depression. In case of mother's empathy, cold emotional reaction and excessive emotional reaction had moderating effect on the relationship between self-esteem and depression. The significance of this study is to find out the important of parental empathy for depressive adolescents who are experiencing self-esteem of low level.