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November 20, 2025Scientific ReportsOpen Access

Network analysis of empathy, anxiety and depression symptoms, relationship satisfaction, sensory processing sensitivity, and alexithymia

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LNLukáš NovákKMKlara MalinakovaKJKateřina Juklová

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The study finds emotional empathy links to anxiety and depression in adults, suggesting higher relationship satisfaction may reduce these symptoms.

Key Points

  • This study aims to explore the relationships between emotional empathy, anxiety, depression, relationship satisfaction, sensory processing sensitivity, and alexithymia.
  • Administered various scales to assess anxiety, depression, empathy, relationship satisfaction, sensory processing sensitivity, and alexithymia in a sample of 3,382 Czech adults.
  • Estimated Mixed Graphical Model networks for total scores and individual items while controlling for age, gender, and education.
  • Used non-parametric bootstrapping to assess stability and accuracy of the findings.
  • Found positive links between emotional empathy and anxiety/depression symptoms that weakened after accounting for covariates.
  • Identified positive empathy's indirect association with lower anxiety through higher relationship satisfaction.
  • Observed no negative-empathy items linked to anxiety or depression, indicating complexity in emotional empathy's role.

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Novák et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6924f084c0ce034ddc35027dhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-24677-2
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