The joint effect of attachment orientations and empathy on compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction among oncologists.

IF 2.4 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2023-11-09 DOI:10.1080/08870446.2023.2279259

Noam Moyal Melumad, Gil Goldzweig, Tom Albo Hershkovitz, Michal Braun

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Abstract

Objective: Compassion fatigue, which consists of burnout and secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction are conceptualized as the negative and positive emotional reactions of working in the helping professions. In this study we examined the joint effect of oncologists' attachment orientations and empathy on their compassion fatigue and satisfaction.

Methods: Seventy-three oncologists completed a demographic questionnaire, the shortened version of the Experiences in Close Relationships scale, the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, and the Professional Quality of Life questionnaire.

Results: A cluster analysis based on empathy and attachment orientations yielded three meaningful clusters that seem to reflect the three attachment orientations: secure, anxious and avoidant. The oncologists in the three clusters differed in their compassion fatigue levels (i.e. both burnout and secondary traumatic stress) and in their compassion satisfaction levels. Secure attachment (i.e. low scores on both anxious attachment and avoidant attachment) along with high levels of the cognitive component of empathy (perspective-taking) resulted in lower levels of compassion fatigue and higher levels of compassion satisfaction than did insecure attachment.

Conclusions: The study emphasizes the importance of oncologists' attachment orientations and appropriate distance/closeness to their patients in protecting them from compassion fatigue and helping them experience compassion satisfaction.

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依恋取向和移情对肿瘤学家同情心疲劳和同情心满意度的联合影响。

目的：同情疲劳（包括倦怠和二次创伤压力）和同情满意度被概念化为在帮助职业中工作的消极和积极情绪反应。在这项研究中，我们检验了肿瘤学家的依恋取向和同理心对他们的同情心疲劳和满意度的共同影响。方法：73名肿瘤学家完成了人口统计学问卷、亲密关系经历量表、人际反应指数和职业生活质量问卷。结果：基于移情和依恋取向的聚类分析产生了三个有意义的聚类，似乎反映了三种依恋取向：安全、焦虑和回避型。三组肿瘤学家的同情心疲劳程度（即倦怠和继发性创伤压力）和同情心满意度不同。与不安全依恋相比，安全依恋（即焦虑依恋和回避型依恋得分均较低）以及高水平的移情认知成分（视角转换）导致同情疲劳程度较低，同情满意度较高。结论：该研究强调了肿瘤学家与患者的依恋取向和适当的距离/亲密度在保护他们免受同情疲劳和帮助他们体验同情满足方面的重要性。

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Psychology & Health Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Psychology & Health promotes the study and application of psychological approaches to health and illness. The contents include work on psychological aspects of physical illness, treatment processes and recovery; psychosocial factors in the aetiology of physical illnesses; health attitudes and behaviour, including prevention; the individual-health care system interface particularly communication and psychologically-based interventions. The journal publishes original research, and accepts not only papers describing rigorous empirical work, including meta-analyses, but also those outlining new psychological approaches and interventions in health-related fields.