TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotional intelligence and its effect on pharmacist and pharmacy students with autistic-like traits
AU - Higuchi, Yuji
AU - Inagaki, Masatoshi
AU - Koyama, Toshihiro
AU - Kitamura, Yoshihisa
AU - Sendo, Toshiaki
AU - Fujimori, Maiko
AU - Kataoka, Hitomi
AU - Hayashibara, Chinatsu
AU - Uchitomi, Yosuke
AU - Yamada, Norihito
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Research for Promotion of Cancer Control Programmes (H26-political-general-002) from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Japan. The authors thank the Okayama Society of Hospital Pharmacists and all the participants for their involvement.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/5
Y1 - 2017/5
N2 - Objective. To measure whether Emotional intelligence (EI) would minimize the negative association between autistic-like traits (ALT) and empathic behavior and enhance the positive association between ALT and psychological distress. Methods. Our sample population included 823 hospital pharmacists belonging to a district society, and 378 pharmacy students. Analyses were performed to examine relationships between scores on the Emotional Intelligence Scale (EQS), Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE), and General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ). Results. Complete answers were obtained from 373 pharmacists, and 341 students. EQS partially intervened the associations between AQ and JSE and between AQ and GHQ. Conclusion. EI partially intervened the relationships between ALT and empathy, and between ALT and mental health, both of which are necessary for optimal pharmaceutical practice.
AB - Objective. To measure whether Emotional intelligence (EI) would minimize the negative association between autistic-like traits (ALT) and empathic behavior and enhance the positive association between ALT and psychological distress. Methods. Our sample population included 823 hospital pharmacists belonging to a district society, and 378 pharmacy students. Analyses were performed to examine relationships between scores on the Emotional Intelligence Scale (EQS), Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE), and General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ). Results. Complete answers were obtained from 373 pharmacists, and 341 students. EQS partially intervened the associations between AQ and JSE and between AQ and GHQ. Conclusion. EI partially intervened the relationships between ALT and empathy, and between ALT and mental health, both of which are necessary for optimal pharmaceutical practice.
KW - Autistic-like traits
KW - Emotional intelligence
KW - Empathy
KW - Pharmacy education
KW - Psychological distress
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U2 - 10.5688/ajpe81474
DO - 10.5688/ajpe81474
M3 - Article
C2 - 28630515
AN - SCOPUS:85020390979
SN - 0002-9459
VL - 81
JO - American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
JF - American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
IS - 4
M1 - 74
ER -
