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@ARTICLE{Hlsemann:303239,
author = {M. J. Hülsemann and A. Kaurin and B. Kollmann and A.
Chmitorz and K. F. Ahrens and C. Schenk and M. M. Plichta
and B. Lutz and U. Basten and C. J. Fiebach and R. Kalisch
and K. Lieb and A. Reif and O. Tüscher and H. Hermes and D.
Schunk and M. Wessa$^*$},
title = {{S}elf-oriented affective empathy is associated with
increased negative affect.},
journal = {Scientific reports},
volume = {15},
number = {1},
issn = {2045-2322},
address = {[London]},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
reportid = {DKFZ-2025-01585},
pages = {27767},
year = {2025},
note = {#LA:C160#},
abstract = {An increasing body of research suggests that empathic
traits at high levels may predict negative affectivity.
Here, we investigate the combinatory and differential role
of affective (personal distress, empathic concern) and
cognitive (perspective taking) facets of empathy for their
contribution to negative affectivity in two general
population samples (N1 = 259, N2 = 938). A latent profile
analysis revealed four combinatory groups of affective and
cognitive empathic facets (i.e., high affective high
cognitive [A+/C+], high affective low cognitive [A+/C-], low
affective high cognitive [A-/C+], low affective low
cognitive [A-/C-]). These groups were differentially
associated with negative affectivity, showing that greater
affective empathy was associated with increased negative
affect. Moreover, moderation and subsidiary simple slopes
analyses demonstrated that self-oriented affective empathy
(personal distress) was generally positively associated with
depression and anxiety. In case of depressive
symptomatology, this correlation was lower under
circumstances of high cognitive empathy, but only in the
larger, second sample. Other-oriented affective empathy
(empathic concern) was not related to negative affect. Our
findings suggest that enhanced self-focused affective
empathy may be associated with exaggerated involvement in
the emotional experience of others, with the potential to
reduce the negative correlation of accurate emotion
recognition with negative affect.},
keywords = {Humans / Empathy: physiology / Female / Male / Adult /
Affect: physiology / Depression: psychology / Middle Aged /
Young Adult / Anxiety: psychology / Cognition / Adolescent /
Affective empathy (Other) / Anxiety (Other) / Cognitive
empathy (Other) / Depression (Other) / Latent profile
analysis (Other) / Replication (Other)},
cin = {C160},
ddc = {600},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)C160-20160331},
pnm = {313 - Krebsrisikofaktoren und Prävention (POF4-313)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-313},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:40738905},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-025-09860-9},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/303239},
}