Abstract

AZEVEDO, Sonia Maria Lourenço de; MOTA, Márcia Maria Peruzzi Elia da  and  METTRAU, Marsyl Bulkool. Empathy: the profile of scientific production and measure more used in research. Est. Inter. Psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.9, n.3, pp. 03-23. ISSN 2236-6407.

The article presents a systematic review of the construct empathy, with the objective of analyzing the publications in this topic in relation to: (a) number of publications per year; (b) areas of publications; (c) kind of study empirical; (d) most used instruments at empirical research. We made a research in the national literature using a search Program in academic sites at the period of 2007 to 2017. We chose the national literature to identify the studies about empathy, the areas, and the instruments most frequently used in our context, being them Brazilian or adapted to our culture. The results appointed that the topic “empathy” have been investigated in several fields and areas of study, such as psychology, medicine, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy, speech therapy, education, production engineering. We found the biggest frequency of studies at psychology area, with a strong validation trend of scale to our culture and health area.

Keywords : empathy; measure; psychology; systematic review.

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