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Özdikmenli-Demir, Gözde; Demir, Serdar – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2014
The validity and reliability of the Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (SEE) was tested using a sample of 348 emerging adult university students living in Turkey. Different from the original scale's four-factor structure, results of principal components analyses and confirmatory factor analyses exposed that there were three factors explaining 45% of…
Descriptors: Empathy, Psychometrics, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Carey, John C.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1988
Attempted to verify multidimensional nature and item composition of Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) subscales through factor analysis. IRI responses from 365 female clinical dieticians and dietetic interns supported contention that IRI subscales measure four discernibly different empathy dimensions. (NB)
Descriptors: Adults, Empathy, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Jegerski, Jane A.; Upshaw, Harry S. – 1984
Empathy, a basis for altruistic motivation, is viewed as a developmental process by Hoffman and others. Current measures of empathy, such as the Davis Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), have been analyzed by exploratory factor analytic methods which do not allow for the testing of a developmental model of the simplex form. This study was…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Stages, Empathy, Factor Structure