Now that you have assessed your emotional contagion by completing Doherty's Emotional Contagion Scale, analyze your ability to understand and communicate your emotions effectively. Reflect your assessment score in your answer
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary depending on the student's assessment score.
• Scores between 45 and 75 show high emotional contagion. These are people who have a tendency to mimic other people's nonverbal behavior, which triggers an emotional reaction in the brain. They also tend to tear up when faced with sad news from others and become stressed by others' stress or anger. They empathize easily, which enhances their ability to understand other people and their relational development. But they are susceptible to emotional burnout, or exhaustion resulting from the pressures of work and relationships. To reduce burnout they should set emotional boundaries (avoid the mimicking of nonverbal behaviors and distance themselves from the other's emotions) and seek social support in terms of emotions, information, and instruments (physical or material assistance).
• Scores between 15 and 44 show low emotional contagion. These are people who are largely unaffected by other people's anxieties and joys. They do not experience most of the related issues of the highly emotional contagious people (see above) and can enhance their interpersonal communication by being more empathic. They should ask appropriate questions of others to
(1) obtain additional information;
(2) check how the person feels;
(3) clarify; and
(4) verify that they've reached accurate conclusions about the other person's intent or feelings.
They should also paraphrase both the message content (what the other person seems to be saying) and the attendant emotions to be sure they understand fully what the other is expressing.
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