Reliability and Validity of the Korean Version of the Empathy Quotient Scale

Kim, Ju-Hee; Lee, Seung-Jae

doi:10.4306/pi.2010.7.1.24

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“…The original scale consists of 60 items (40 of them measure empathy and 20 filler items serve to distract the participants from focusing on empathy), but Lawrence et al (2004) suggested shortening the scale to 28 items loading on three factors: Cognitive Empathy (CE; 11 items), Emotional Reactivity (ER; 11 items) and Social Skills (SS; 6 items). This three-factor structure of the EQ has been partly confirmed in translated versions of the EQ in Japan (Wakabayashi et al, 2007), France (Berthoz et al, 2008), Canada (Lepage et al, 2009), Korea (Kim & Lee, 2010), Italy (Preti et al, 2011), Serbia (Dimitrijević et al, 2012) and Netherlands (Groen et al, 2015) and the scale has proven to be a valid and reliable tool for assessing empathy in both clinical and non-clinical samples.…”

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Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Croatian Short Version of the Empathy Quotient

Wertag

Hanzec²

2016

Suvr psihol

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The Empathy Quotient (EQ, Baron-Cohen & Wheelwright, 2004) measures empathy as an ability to identify what someone else is thinking and feeling, and to respond to their thoughts and feelings with an appropriate emotion. Although the questionnaire was developed in order to be sensitive to empathy deficits as a part of psychopathology, it is often used in other areas of psychological research as well. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the short version of the translated Empathy Quotient (EQ-28) that has psychometric superiority over the original version (Lawrence et al., 2004). Data was collected on-line on a convenient sample (N = 115; 81 female and 34 male) with a mean age of 31.30 (SD = 7.49), within a larger study. The results of the principal component analysis showed a clear three-factor solution consistent with the structure proposed & Paulhus, 2014) showed the theoretically expected relationships between the given constructs. On the basis of the results of this preliminary study it can be concluded that the Croatian version of the EQ-28 has satisfactory metric characteristics and represents a good measure of cognitive and affective empathy, but these results should be replicated on a larger and more gender balanced sample.

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Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Croatian Short Version of the Empathy Quotient

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Hanzec²

2016

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“…Empathizing involves an ability to understand other people's mental states and emotions, and be interested in the social connection with others (Kim & Lee, 2010). The ability to empathize is of particular importance for those successfully pursuing medical and clinical careers (Barak, 1990;Lambert & Barley, 2001;Hojat et al, 2002;Rosenfield & Jones, 2004).…”

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Empathy or science? Empathy explains physical science enrollment for men and women

Thomson

Wurtzburg

Centifanti

2015

Learning and Individual Differences

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Citation for published item:homsonD xFhF nd urtzurgD F nd gentifnti @n¡ ee wu£ nozAD vFgF @PHISA 9impthy or sienec impthy explins physil siene enrollment for men nd womenF9D verning nd individul di'erenesFD RH F ppF IISEIPHF Further information on publisher's website: httpXGGdxFdoiForgGIHFIHITGjFlindifFPHISFHRFHHQ Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Learning and Individual Dierences. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A denitive version was subsequently published in Learning and Individual Dierences, 40, May 2015, 10.1016/j.lindif.2015.003. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Those in the physical sciences work to understand relationships among non-social entities and this may come at a cost to their understanding of social relationships. Alternatively, it could be that those in the physical sciences differ in how comfortable they feel in social situations. Prior research had been confined to looking at differences between particular subject majors (e.g., humanities) and physical sciences, leaving open the possibility that people choosing subjects like psychology or biology might differ on empathy. University students (N=404) majoring in humanities, social science, life science, or physical science completed the Empathy Quotient (EQ). Confirmatory factor analysis showed threefactors of the EQ, and these were used in multinomial logistic regression. Empathy differences made a unique contribution to explaining subject major choice. We found that greater levels of empathy predicted membership in social and life sciences, while lower levels of empathy predicted physical sciences enrollment.

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“…However, no empathy measure has been validated in a pharmacy education setting in Korea, even though the Korean versions of 2 empathy measures-JSPE and IRI-were previously validated for Korean medical students. 23,24 The JSPE and JSPE-Student version (JSPE-S) are widely used as context-relevant instruments to measure the empathy of physicians and medical students with regard to patient care. 20 The IRI, however, was developed to measure empathy in the general population.…”

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Assessment of Korean Pharmacy Students’ Empathy Using the Jefferson Scale of Empathy

Jeon¹,

Cho

2015

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

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Objective. To validate the Korean-translated Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Health Professions Student version (JSE-HPS) and to investigate the empathy levels of pharmacy students in South Korea. Methods. The JSE-HPS and the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) were administered to 452 pharmacy students in their second and third years at 5 Korean universities. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), correlations, and one-way ANOVAs were conducted for data analyses.Results. The final sample size comprised 447 responses. The 3-factor model of the JSE-HPS was confirmed by CFA and the convergent validity was also supported by its correlations with the IRI subscales. The overall mean score was 80.3. Pharmacy students enrolled in women's or private universities reported significantly higher levels of overall empathy than their counterparts in co-ed or national universities. Conclusion. Our findings empirically support the psychometric soundness of the Korean JSE-HPS for pharmacy students.

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Reliability and Validity of the Korean Version of the Empathy Quotient Scale

Cited by 61 publications

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Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Croatian Short Version of the Empathy Quotient

Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Croatian Short Version of the Empathy Quotient

Empathy or science? Empathy explains physical science enrollment for men and women

Assessment of Korean Pharmacy Students’ Empathy Using the Jefferson Scale of Empathy

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