ReviewFrontiers in psychology2020
Ways of Knowing Compassion: How Do We Come to Know, Understand, and Measure Compassion When We See It?
Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- What is the State of Organisational Compassion-Based Interventions Targeting to Improve Health Professionals' Well-Being? Results of a Systematic Review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Pooled it
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- The experience of self-compassion training among NHS healthcare professionals.Journal of health psychology · 2025Article
- Empathy and helping: the role of affect in response to others' suffering.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- The development of the Polish version of the Compassionate Engagement and Action Scales.PloS one · 2025Article
- Organisational kindness and compassion: what are the barriers, enablers and outcomes for clients and stakeholders?PloS one · 2025Article
- Impact of Authentic Leadership on Nurses' Ethically Oriented Practices and Patient-Oriented Outcomes: A Multilevel Analysis.Journal of nursing management · 2025Article
- Self-compassion as a protective factor against adverse consequences of social media use: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Development of a multicomponent survey of experiences of tragedy-based and fear-based trauma in COVID-19 healthcare professionals.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Genetics, Epigenetics, and the Environment: Are Precision Medicine, Provider Compassion, and Social Justice Effective Public Health Measures to Mitigate Disease Risk and Severity?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Exploring the impact of compassion and leadership on patient safety and quality in healthcare systems: a narrative review.BMJ open quality · 2024Review
- Measures of empathy and compassion: A scoping review.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Visualizing Compassion: Episodic Simulation as Contemplative Practice.Mindfulness · 2023Article
- Defining compassion: A Delphi study of compassion therapists' experiences when introducing patients to the term 'compassion'.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2023Article
- Energizing compassion: using music and community focus to stimulate compassion drive and sense of connectedness.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The development and validation of multidimensional workplace compassion scale: Linking its conceptualization and measurement.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Spreading positive change: Societal benefits of meditation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Discovering compassion in medical training: a qualitative study with curriculum leaders, educators, and learners.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Over the last decade, empirical research on compassion has burgeoned in the biomedical, clinical, translational, and foundational sciences. Increasingly sophisticated understandings and measures of compassion continue to emerge from the abundance of multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies. Naturally, the diversity of research methods and theoretical frameworks employed presents a significant challenge to consensus and synthesis of this knowledge. To bring the empirical findings of separate and sometimes siloed disciplines into conversation with one another requires an examination of their disparate assumptions about what compassion is and how it can be known. Here, we present an integrated theoretical review of methodologies used in the empirical study of compassion. Our goal is to highlight the distinguishing features of each of these ways of knowing compassion, as well as the strengths and limitations of applying them to specific research questions. We hope this will provide useful tools for selecting methods that are tailored to explicit objectives (methods matching), taking advantage of methodological complementarity across disciplines (methods mixing), and incorporating the empirical study of compassion into fields in which it may be missing.
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