Cultivating empathy and compassion: Lived experiences of engagement with cognitively-based compassion training in the US

IF 0.6 4区社会学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY

Ethos Pub Date : 2024-03-03 DOI:10.1111/etho.12424

Sara McConnell PhD, Brendan Richard Ozawa-de Silva PhD, Chikako Ozawa-de Silva PhD

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Abstract

This qualitative study presents an analysis of data taken from 16 participants who were interviewed during and 1 year after they attended a course in Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), a meditation course that seeks to help participants cultivate empathy and compassion. The study sought to examine what benefits, if any, participants in a CBCT course reported with regard to their understanding and practice of empathy and compassion; and secondly, if their statements in the interviews exhibited understandings and practices consonant with emotional, social, and cognitive resilience as identified in the existing literature, and consonant with empathy and compassion as defined in CBCT and in existing literature on compassion. The study found that participant interviews provided significant evidence of the development of skills identified in the literature as components of emotional, cognitive, and social resilience, and that participant descriptions and definitions of compassion closely matched those existing in the literature.

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培养同理心和同情心：美国参与基于认知的同情心培训的生活体验

这项定性研究分析了 16 名参与者在参加认知式慈悲训练（CBCT）课程期间和课程结束一年后接受访谈的数据，CBCT 是一种旨在帮助参与者培养同理心和慈悲心的冥想课程。该研究旨在考察 CBCT 课程的参与者在理解和实践同理心与同情心方面有哪些益处（如果有的话）；其次，他们在访谈中的陈述是否与现有文献中确定的情绪、社会和认知复原力的理解和实践相一致，是否与 CBCT 和现有关于同情心的文献中定义的同理心和同情心相一致。研究发现，参与者在访谈中提供了大量证据，证明他们发展了文献中作为情绪、认知和社会适应能力组成部分的技能，而且参与者对同情心的描述和定义与文献中的描述和定义非常吻合。

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期刊介绍： Ethos is an interdisciplinary and international quarterly journal devoted to scholarly articles dealing with the interrelationships between the individual and the sociocultural milieu, between the psychological disciplines and the social disciplines. The journal publishes work from a wide spectrum of research perspectives. Recent issues, for example, include papers on religion and ritual, medical practice, child development, family relationships, interactional dynamics, history and subjectivity, feminist approaches, emotion, cognitive modeling and cultural belief systems. Methodologies range from analyses of language and discourse, to ethnographic and historical interpretations, to experimental treatments and cross-cultural comparisons.