Mindfulness, Empathy and Social Integration. Its Relation With Chonic Stress

The objective of this project is to evaluate the effects of promoting the learning of empathy and pro-social behavior in health and interpersonal relationships in middle-aged children It has been shown that pro-social behavior can decrease chronic stress levels and improve the response of the immune system and the autonomic nervous system. This behavior, which includes a wide variety of actions such as helping, sharing, comforting, informing, emerges early in ontogeny and is closely related to empathic processes. Finding ways to teach how to develop empathy and perspective could contribute to favor interpersonal relationships and health in the school environment, articulating aspects of basic science and applied science. The project not only aims to deepen theoretical aspects of chornic stress, empathy and pro-sociality, but also to develop concrete tools that diminsh chronic stress and foster empathic and cooperative attitudes in the school environment, thus contributing to individual and collective well-being.