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Empathy as a “Risky Strength”: A Multilevel Examination of Empathy and Risk for Internalizing Disorders

Once again, I have come across a study showing a potential source of discomfort for Rh negative people. Keep in mind that Rh negative men and women might differ in terms of how high levels of empathy are socially viewed respectively.

In this review, we proposed a model in which characteristics typically associated with resilience and mental health, such as empathic tendencies, serve, under some conditions, as “risky strengths” that magnify vulnerability for psychological disorders. According to our model, complex interactions among an array of moderating variables can increase risk for empathic personal distress and excessive interpersonal guilt in youths who show enhanced proclivities for empathic sensitivity. Personal distress and interpersonal guilt, in turn, contribute to heightened risk for fear/arousal symptoms and anhedonia/misery symptoms, respectively.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340688/

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