Objective: To probe into the relationship between college student’ perceived social support and empathy, and examine the mediating effect of narcissism and its gender difference.
Methods: In 2019, the random cluster sampling method was adopted, and class was used as a unit in a college in the Tibet Autonomous Region. A total of 537 college students were investigated with the perceived social support scale, interpersonal reactivity index, and narcissistic personality inventory, respectively.
Results: The scores of perceived social support, empathy, and narcissism were 4.9 (1.3), 3.3 (0.4) and 2.8 (0.7). The college students’ perceived social support was positively related to narcissism (r=0.114, p<0.05) and was positively related to empathy (r=0.249, p<0.01). Narcissism partially mediated the relationship between perceived social support and empathy. Gender had a moderating effect on the mediating process of perceived social support and narcissism (β=0.302, p<0.01), that the mediating effect manifested as narcissism was merely significant among male students (β=0.333, p<0.01), but was not significant among female students (β=0.034, p>0.05).
Conclusions: Improving narcissism is conducive to the enhancement of the effect of perceived social support on the empathy ability, and that effect is significant in males solely.
BIAN Shengnan
,
LI Fengqi
,
CHEN Chao
,
QI Chunhui
,
ZHANG Zhen
. Perceived Social Support and Empathy: The Mediating Effect of Narcissism and Its Gender Difference[J]. Psychological Communications, 2021
, 4(2)
: 82
-86
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DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.221022
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