Relations among Measures of Trait Empathy, Empathetic Response, and Willingness to Get Involved in Customer-Contact Situations

Su, Hung-Jen; Lee, Sang-Hyun; Ding, Jing; Comer, Lucette B.

doi:10.2466/pr0.97.2.378-380

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“…This could be due to several reasons. First, difficulties have been recognized when linking the fantasy scale to empathy, being a controversial scale for several authors [74,75]. Additionally, personal distress has been primarily linked with C [76], and our task caused no change in sC levels.…”

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confidence: 92%

Hormonal Profile in Response to an Empathic Induction Task in Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: Oxytocin/Testosterone Ratio and Social Cognition

Comes-Fayos

Romero‐Martínez

Moreno

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Empathy deficits have been proposed to be an important factor for intimate partner violence (IPV). IPV perpetrators have shown a differential change in salivary oxytocin (sOXT), testosterone (sT), and cortisol (sC), following empathic and stress tasks, compared to non-violent men. However, the influence of empathic deficits in those hormones after an emotion-induction task in IPV perpetrators remains unclear. We analyzed the effects of an empathic induction task on endogenous sOXT, sT and sC levels, as well as their hormonal ratios, in IPV perpetrators (n = 12), and compared them to controls (n = 12). Additionally, we explored the predictive capacity of empathy-related functions (measured with the interpersonal reactivity index) in the hormonal responses to the task. IPV perpetrators presented lower sOXT changes and higher total sT levels than controls after the task, lower sOXT/T change and total sOXT/T levels, as well as higher total sT/C levels. Notably, for all participants, the lower the perspective taking score, the lower the total sOXT levels and sOXT changes and the higher the sT changes were. Low perspective taking also predicted smaller sOXT/T and sOXT/C changes in the empathic induction task, and higher total sT/C levels for all participants. Therefore, our results could contribute to furthering our ability to focus on new therapeutic targets, increasing the effectiveness of intervention programs and helping to reduce IPV recidivism in the medium term.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Hormonal Profile in Response to an Empathic Induction Task in Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: Oxytocin/Testosterone Ratio and Social Cognition

Comes-Fayos

Romero‐Martínez

Moreno

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…Participants indicated their answer for each item on a five-point Likert scale (1 = "Does not describe me well", 5 = "Describes me very well"). Given that we were interested primarily in empathy as it unfolds during real-world social interactions, we focused only on perspective taking, empathic concern, and personal distress (for related discussions see De Corte et al, 2007;Su, Lee, Ding, & Comer, 2005) [see Supplementary Table S2 for the internal consistency of all three sub-scales (α > 0.73)].…”

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You ≠ me: individual differences in the structure of social cognition

Shaw

Czekóová

Pennington

et al. 2018

Psychological Research

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This study investigated the structure of social cognition, and how it is influenced by personality; specifically, how various socio-cognitive capabilities, and the pattern of interrelationships and co-dependencies among them differ between divergent personality styles. To measure social cognition, a large non-clinical sample (n = 290) undertook an extensive battery of self-report and performance-based measures of visual perspective taking, imitative tendencies, affective empathy, interoceptive accuracy, emotion regulation, and state affectivity. These same individuals then completed the Personality Styles and Disorders Inventory. Latent Profile Analysis revealed two dissociable personality profiles that exhibited contrasting cognitive and affective dispositions, and multivariate analyses indicated further that these profiles differed on measures of social cognition; individuals characterised by a flexible and adaptive personality profile expressed higher action orientation (emotion regulation) compared to those showing more inflexible tendencies, along with better visual perspective taking, superior interoceptive accuracy, less imitative tendencies, and lower personal distress and negativity. These characteristics point towards more efficient self-other distinction, and to higher cognitive control more generally. Moreover, low-level cognitive mechanisms served to mediate other higher level socio-emotional capabilities. Together, these findings elucidate the cognitive and affective underpinnings of individual differences in social behaviour, providing a data-driven model that should guide future research in this area.

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“…In such cases, the IRI score was given as the sum of four subscales, so the meaning of each individual subscale was ignored. In other cases, the Fantasy scale was excluded, and only the three other subscales of the IRI were used (e.g., Su, Lee, Ding, & Comer, 2005). The IRI subscales were not intended to be used separately, but as a whole.…”

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Empathy with Fictional Stories: Reconsideration of the Fantasy Scale of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index

Nomura¹,

Akai

2012

Psychol Rep

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The present research compared empathy for real people with empathy for fictional characters. 95 university students (53 men, 42 women) ages 18-22 years (M = 19.5, SD = 1.9) completed the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) and the Fictional IRI. The IRI is a widely used measure of human empathy, and the Fictional IRI contains items from the original IRI that have been modified to investigate empathy for fictional characters. Empathy for characters in fictional stories was found to correlate statistically significantly with empathy for real people on all but a few factors. The results of the present study indicate that empathy for real people and empathy for fictional characters are similar, suggesting that the Fantasy subscale of the IRI, which is limited to fictional stories, should be reconsidered.

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Relations among Measures of Trait Empathy, Empathetic Response, and Willingness to Get Involved in Customer-Contact Situations

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Hormonal Profile in Response to an Empathic Induction Task in Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: Oxytocin/Testosterone Ratio and Social Cognition

Hormonal Profile in Response to an Empathic Induction Task in Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: Oxytocin/Testosterone Ratio and Social Cognition

You ≠ me: individual differences in the structure of social cognition

Empathy with Fictional Stories: Reconsideration of the Fantasy Scale of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index

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