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Measuring Empathy In Female Hygiene Students, Patricia R. Mason
Measuring Empathy In Female Hygiene Students, Patricia R. Mason
Dental Hygiene Theses & Dissertations
The aim of this investigation was to assess empathy in female dental hygiene admissions candidates and first and second year dental hygiene students. A convenience sample of subjects from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia; the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, were included within the study.
Data were organized according to a 3 x 3 factorial research design with educational setting and student status as the non-manipulated independent variables. The dependent variable, empathy, was measured by the Hogan Empathy Scale.
Three group, two-way analysis of variance yielded no statistically significant empathy differences among levels of …