AUTHOR=de la Fuente-Anuncibay Raquel , González-Barbadillo Ángela , Ortega-Sánchez Delfín , Pizarro-Ruiz Juan Pablo TITLE=Mindfulness and Empathy: Mediating Factors and Gender Differences in a Spanish Sample JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=11 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01915 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01915 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Numerous research studies link mindfulness training to improved empathy. However, few studies focus on the mediating factors of empathy. This work has three objectives: (a) to analyze the possible mediation of mindfulness as a feature in this relation, (b) to analyze the mindfulness factors that mediate in the increase of empathy and (c) to analyze the moderating role of gender. The sample was composed of 246 Spanish-speaking university students (