High Academic Self-Efficacy and Dispositional Empathy in Future Teachers

Abstract

High perceived academic self-efficacy influences both subject performance and emotions of the subject. In turn, dispositional empathy implies a social and emotional adaptability towards the subject itself and those around them. This study aimed to analyze the differences in the mean dispositional empathy factors (i.e., perspective taking, fantasy, empathic concern and personal distress) between future teachers with high and low perceived academic self-efficacy, as well as the predictive capacity of dispositional empathy on high perceived academic self-efficacy, and the correlations between both dimensions. For this, a sample of 805 Spanish students of the Faculties of Education of the Universities of Alicante and Murcia was recruited. The Escala de Autoeficacia Percibida Específica de Situaciones Académicas was used to assess perceived academic self-efficacy and the Interpersonal Reactivity Index was used to analyze the dimensions of dispositional empathy. It was observed that high academic self-efficacy is more likely to present in people with a high level of perspective taking and fantasy (OR = 1.07 and 1.09, respectively) and less for those with personal discomfort (OR = 0.17). The other analyzes provided the same conclusions. In conclusion, it is important to develop perceived academic self-efficacy in undergraduates and future teachers due to the consequences that can lead to their classrooms.

Self-Oriented Empathy and Compassion Fatigue: The Serial Mediation of Dispositional Mindfulness and Counselor’s Self-Efficacy

“…Second, consistent with our hypotheses, mindfulness and counselor's self-efficacy independently mediated the self-oriented empathy-CF linkage. In line with previous studies, we found that self-oriented empathy could negatively predict dispositional mindfulness (Baer, 2004;Dekeyser et al, 2008;Fuochi and Voci, 2020) and context-specific self-efficacy (Aparicio-Flores et al, 2020). We also found that low levels of mindfulness and contextspecific self-efficacy were associated with a high level of CF, which is consistent with previous studies (Olson et al, 2015;Shoji et al, 2015;Brown et al, 2017;Kind et al, 2020).…”

Filipino public-school teachers' empathy: A cross-sectional, descriptive study

“…Although feelings of empathy are considered transitory states, many researchers believe that some people are more likely to experience these states than others or experience these states to a greater extent (Lishner et al, 2017). Teachers' selfefficacy, or their belief in their ability to handle teachingrelated tasks, was found to contribute to empathy in teachers (Aparicio-Flores et al, 2020;Goroshit & Hen, 2016). This relationship was also demonstrated in an earlier study -more specifically, higher levels of perspective-taking (cognitive empathy) were associated with higher self-efficacy (Davis, 1983).…”

Feeling compassion and responsible but not starting a social venture: role of empathy and moral obligation in social entrepreneurial intention

“…The aim of this study was to empirically investigate the condition(s) under which an individual with a positive attitude towards others decides to create a social venture. Based on prior literature (Aparicio-Flores et al , 2020; Bacq and Alt, 2018; Pang et al , 2022; Tiwari et al , 2022 Zeng and Chen,2022), we proposed that attitudes towards others, such as empathy and moral obligation, predicts SEI through social entrepreneurial self-efficacy and perceived social support. We found support for our mediation model across two different samples, one from a frontier economy and the other from an emerging economy.…”

“…In contrast, the existing literature suggests that an others-oriented attitude most accurately predicts a behaviour through individual and contextual factors, such as selfefficacy and perceived social support (Aparicio-Flores et al, 2020;Domene, 2012;Pang et al, 2022;Zeng and Chen, 2022). More specifically, empathy acts as an antecedent of (social entrepreneurial) self-efficacy, thus influencing outcome expectations and SEI through social entrepreneurial self-efficacy (Aparicio-Flores et al, 2020;Bacq and Alt, 2018;Ip et al, 2021). It also indirectly shapes one's prosocial behaviour through perceived social support (Fu et al, 2022).…”