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Parents’ Judgements and Students’ Self-Judgements of Empathy: The structure of empathy and agreement of judgements based on the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI)
University West, Department of Nursing, Health and Culture, Division of Advanced Nursing.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4722-009X
2001 (English)In: European Journal of Psychological Assessment, ISSN 1015-5759, E-ISSN 2151-2426, Vol. 17, no 1, p. 36-47Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A sample of 221 11th grade students and their parents were asked to complete the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI; M. H. Davis, 1980), which is comprised of 4 subscales: empathic concern, perspective taking, fantasy, and personal distress; and a global-item measure containing 4 items, 1 for each subscale. The factorial structure that emerged in a previous study (C. Cliffordson, 2000) involving the students was tested on ratings provided by their parents. The results from the IRI scale were also compared to results from the global-item measure. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the structure of empathy and the agreement of self/other judgments. The results support the conclusions from the previous study that the concept of empathy can be considered to be identical to empathic concern, which also explains a great deal of perspective taking and fantasy. The agreement between the students' and their parents' judgments was substantial, and there are several reasons to believe that the interjudge agreement obtained is accurate.

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Cambridge: Hogrefe Publishing Corp , 2001. Vol. 17, no 1, p. 36-47
Keywords [en]
Empathy, Interpersonal Reactivity Index, IRI, self/other judgment, structural equation modeling
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Pedagogy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE, Pedagogics; SOCIAL SCIENCE, Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-2107DOI: 10.1027//1015-5759.17.1.36OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-2107DiVA, id: diva2:284737
Available from: 2010-01-08 Created: 2010-01-08 Last updated: 2017-12-12Bibliographically approved
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Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2001. p. 188
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Göteborg studies in educational science, ISSN 0436-1121 ; 156
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Pedagogy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE, Pedagogics
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urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-2114 (URN)
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Available from: 2010-03-04 Created: 2010-01-08 Last updated: 2023-04-05Bibliographically approved

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