Empathic Features and Absorption in Fantasy Role-Playing
| Autor: | Anissa Rivers, Ian E. Wickramasekera, Ronald J. Pekala, Jennifer A. Rivers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male Hypnosis media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Empathy Absorption (psychology) Fantasy 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Correlational analysis Role Playing media_common 05 social sciences General Medicine Complementary and alternative medicine Personality type Interpersonal Reactivity Index Female Role playing Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. 58:286-294 |
| ISSN: | 2160-0562 0002-9157 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00029157.2015.1103696 |
| Popis: | This study examined the levels of empathy and absorption of individuals who regularly play fantasy and science fiction role-playing games. A hypothesis was developed that higher levels of empathy would be found in individuals who fantasy role-play based upon previous research in hypnosis such as J. R. Hilgard's (1970) imaginative involvement hypothesis, research into the "fantasy prone" personality type (Wilson & Barber, 1981), and the empathic involvement hypothesis (Wickramasekera II & Szlyk, 2003). The participants in the current study were 127 fantasy role-players who volunteered and completed the Davis Interpersonal Reactivity Index (empathy) and the Tellegen Absorption Scale (absorption). The results demonstrated that those who play fantasy role-playing games scored significantly higher than the comparison group on the IRI scale of empathy, confirming the hypothesis that fantasy role-players report experiencing higher levels of empathic involvement with others. Correlational analysis between the measures demonstrated a significant positive correlation between empathy and absorption (r = .43, p |
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