Page No 356-361 V. MukeshKannaand A.G. Shanthi
Institute of Mental Health, Kilpauk, Chennai
To understand the impact of empathy and emotional intelligence on compassion fatigue
among mental health professionals. Mental health professionals were taken as sample
for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect the data. Tools used
were Professional Quality of Life by Stamm, The Brief emotional Intelligence Scale by
Davis et al., and the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire by Spreng et al. Pearson product
moment correlation was done for analysing the data. Correlational analysis of the
variables revealed significant positive relationships between empathy, emotional
intelligence and compassion fatigue
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