Empathy

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Volume 12 · Issue 5 · October 2025

Empathy As a Mediation Role of The Relationship Between Personality Factors and Online Dating Violence Among College Students

Pakstan Faiq Muhamedamin, Nabi Fatahi

Online dating violence is a new form of violence perpetrated by persons in romantic relationship. the current study aimed to examine the function of empathy in the link between online dating violence and personality traits. The quantitative method was utilized, and the study's sample was purposeful and non- random, consisting of Soran University students. The sample comprised 108 students, 51 boys, and 57 girls. Data were collected using four self- report measures. Firstly, dark trait scale was used to assess psychopath and narcissism traits. Second the Big Five Inventory, which includes questions on neuroticism, agreeableness, consciousness. The third empathy questioner and the last measurement was online dating violence. The results showed that personality traits generally effect the increase of online dating violence among study sample. As well as results indicated that personality traits indirectly through empathy variable effects of online dating violence. Empathy as an appropriate variable which has direct effect of online dating violence. In spite of the positive role of social media on the social communication, it considers to be one of the risk factors of online dating violence between individuals in romantic relationship.

Volume 12 · Issue 5 · October 2025

Empathy, Occupational Alienation Among Educational Counselors In Erbil City.

Nwenar Yaseen Mohammed, Yousif Hamasalih Mustafa

The aim of the research is to investigate the levels of empathy and occupational alienation in sample study, to investigate differences in empathy and occupational alienation based on gender variable (male and female), and to investigate the correlation between empathy and occupational alienation among educational counselors in Erbil City. To achieve aims of the study, the researchers used Jolliffe and Farrington scale (2006) to measure empathy, and the Ben Zahi scale (2007) to measure occupational alienation, and they applied scales after confirming the psychometric characteristics such as validity and reliability. The research population include all educational counselors in public and private schools inside Erbil city, and the study sample consisted of (233) counselors of both genders, selected through accidental sampling. The research found the following results: There is a high level of empathy and a low level of occupational alienation among educational counselors in Erbil city. There are statistically significant differences in the level of empathy according to gender variable in females, while there are statistically significant differences in the level of occupational alienation in males. There is a statistically significant negative correlation between empathy and occupational alienation among sample study.