Correlation perceived level of social support with empathy levels of health workers and their ability to coping styles with stress

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the demographic data of people serving in the field of Health and the level of empathy, stress coping styles and perceived level of social support. 178 health studies consisting of 52 physicians, 92 nurses and 34 health technicians working in Istanbul province were conducted. The "Demographic Data Sheet" was used to determine the participants ' personal characteristics, the "Toronto empathy scale" to determine their empathy level, the "stress coping styles scale" to determine their stress-related exit styles, and the "multidimensional perceived social support scale" to determine their perception of social support. Hand-held data from participants was examined by SPSS statistical analysis program. Health workers are expected to have the most compassion, compassion and understanding for every community, and to be competent in their profession, not to lose control of intense stress gold and to maintain effective communication with it. These characteristics are also primarily related to people's empathy patterns. In addition, we know that empathy is an attitude learned primarily from family with our student from studies on empathy (Schwarser&Taubert, 2002). This study was conducted assuming that people who received adequate levels of social support had a high level of empathy and could develop more effective stress coping styles, even though intense stress worked gold. At the end of the study, a positive association in high comprehension was found between perceived social support and empathy levels to confirm these variations (p<, 01). It is also seen as an effective coping aspect from the lower dimensions of stress coping styles with perceived social support; a significant negative association was found with the helplessness approach ,which was seen as a significant positive, ineffective starting direction in the confident approach and optimistic approach(p<, 01).