Effects of facial emotion recognition on prosocial behavior of medical students in mask-obscured scenes: mediating effect of state empathy

Zhenming ZHANG; Yingcan ZHENG; Yingdan TANG; Xinjie TAN; Feifei WANG; Jia WANG; Mengyin ZHU; Yitong XUE; Guoyu YANG

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Effects of facial emotion recognition on prosocial behavior of medical students in mask-obscured scenes: mediating effect of state empathy

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- Effects of facial emotion recognition on prosocial behavior of medical students in mask-obscured scenes: mediating effect of state empathy
- Journal of Army Medical University Vol. 46, Issue 13, Pages: 1585-1592(2024)
- 作者机构：
  
  1.400038 重庆，陆军军医大学医学心理系军人发展心理学教研室
  2.671000 云南大理，陆军第七十五集团军医院精神心理科
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- DOI：10.16016/j.2097-0927.202401093
  CLC： R192;R395.1
- Received：26 January 2024，
  
  Revised：2024-04-25，
  
  Published：15 July 2024
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Zhenming ZHANG, Yingcan ZHENG, Yingdan TANG, et al. Effects of facial emotion recognition on prosocial behavior of medical students in mask-obscured scenes: mediating effect of state empathy[J]. Journal of Army Medical University, 2024, 46(13): 1585-1592.
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Zhenming ZHANG, Yingcan ZHENG, Yingdan TANG, et al. Effects of facial emotion recognition on prosocial behavior of medical students in mask-obscured scenes: mediating effect of state empathy[J]. Journal of Army Medical University, 2024, 46(13): 1585-1592. DOI： 10.16016/j.2097-0927.202401093.

摘要

目的

探讨状态共情在口罩遮挡条件下面部情绪识别对医学生亲社会行为影响的中介作用。

方法

于2023年7-9月招募53名来自重庆某医学高校的医学生，完成面部情绪识别任务、独裁者博弈任务、状态共情测试，采用Spearman相关分析考察口罩遮挡与否、状态共情、特质共情、亲社会行为之间的相关性，采用PROCESS程序检验状态共情的中介以及口罩遮挡与否的调节作用。

结果

① 口罩遮挡与否、状态共情与亲社会行为显著相关(

0.01)；②状态共情在面部情绪识别与亲社会行为之间起中介作用，其中悲伤的相对中介效应的效果量最大(47%)；③面部情绪识别、口罩遮挡与否的交互项对状态共情的影响显著(

0.05)。

结论

面部情绪识别可以直接影响亲社会行为，也可以通过状态共情间接影响亲社会行为。相比于无口罩遮挡条件，口罩遮挡会显著增强快乐、悲伤、中性情绪对状态共情的促进作用。

Abstract

Objective

To explore the mediating effect of facial emotion recognition on prosocial behavior of medical students in mask-obscured scenes.

Methods

Fifty-three medical students from a medical university in Chongqing were enrolled from July to September 2023 to complete the facial emotion recognition task

the dictator gaming task and the state empathy test. Spearman correlation analysis was used to examine the correlation between mask wearing and state empathy

trait empathy and prosocial behaviours

and the PROCESS procedure was used to test the mediation of state empathy and the moderating effect of mask wearing or not.

Results

① mask wearing

state empathy and prosocial behaviour were significantly correlated (

0.01); ②State empathy exerted mediated effect between facial emotion recognition and prosocial behavior

with the largest effect size (47%) for the relative mediating effect of sadness; ③The interaction terms of facial emotion recognition and mask wearing had a significant effect on state empathy (

0.05).

Conclusion

Facial emotion recognition can influence prosocial behavior directly and also exert indirect effect on prosocial behavior through state empathy. Compared to the condition without mask wearing

mask wearing can significantly facilitate the effect of happy

sad and neutral emotions on state empathy.

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