What is your empathy scale not measuring? The convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of five empathy scales

Stosic, Morgan D.; Fultz, Amber A.; Brown, Jill A.; Bernieri, Frank J.

doi:10.1080/00224545.2021.1985417

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“…Recent research has shown that self-reports of empathy seem to be unrelated with empathic abilities. 76 , 77 It is important to complement the use of self-reported measures of empathy with other measures, such as physiological or neurological measures, as well as measures provided by patients and colleagues.…”

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What is the Link Between Different Components of Empathy and Burnout in Healthcare Professionals? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Delgado¹,

Rodríguez²,

Montesinos³

et al. 2023

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Research on healthcare shows that the relationship between empathy and burnout is complex. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to clarify the link between different empathic components and burnout components in healthcare professionals. A systematic review was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidance. The search strategy was applied in PubMed, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Scopus, and Medline, from January 1990 to January 2021. Population included nurses and doctors. Key inclusion criteria were articles addressing the relationship between different components of empathy and professional performance and wellbeing or burn out, or studies using burnout and empathy measures with validity support from commonly accepted sources of evidence. Risk of bias was assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. From 1159 references identified, 22 studies were included in the systematic review, and 5 studies in the meta-analysis. Empathic Concern was significantly correlated with Depersonalization and Personal Accomplishment. Moreover, the links between Perspective Taking, Depersonalization and Personal Accomplishment were statistically significant. In conclusion, exploring and understanding the complex links between empathy and burnout could help healthcare professionals as well as institutions to reduce the risk of suffering burnout.

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What is the Link Between Different Components of Empathy and Burnout in Healthcare Professionals? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Delgado¹,

Rodríguez²,

Montesinos³

et al. 2023

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“…This may be one reason that different situational tasks intended to assess a single lower-order construct often have quite low correlations (Warnell & Redcay, 2019). These correlations are even lower when comparing situational and dispositional measures of the same construct (Murphy & Lilienfeld, 2019;Stosic et al, 2021). Further, measures of different lower-order processes (e.g., emotion contagion and perspective taking) can fail to correlate with each other at all, suggesting a lack of coherence in defining the larger construct of empathy (Reniers et al, 2011).…”

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The Little Black Box: Contextualizing Empathy

Stellar

Duong

2023

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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In the last century since the word “empathy” was first introduced to the English vernacular, it has gained wide attention within academia and society more broadly. However, empathy has proven particularly challenging to define. We suggest that persistent disagreements about its conceptualization partially result from the tendency of researchers to simplify, remove, or ignore the context in which empathy is experienced. But context matters. For instance, we experience empathy when we encounter a grieving friend, but also when our partner expresses frustration with our past behavior. We illustrate how context shapes the experience of empathy by focusing on the diversity of emotional contexts that give rise to empathy and presenting a case study of context-specific empathy in response to another’s pain versus sadness. We conclude with recommendations for academics and those in the public arena who are interested in understanding empathy.

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“…Based on prior research (Israelashvili et al, 2019; Melchers et al, 2015; Murphy & Lilienfeld, 2019; Roth & Altmann, 2021; Stosic et al, 2022), we predicted that self-report would be poorly correlated with behavioral performance for cognitive empathy. For affective empathy, self-report and behavioral measures were expected to be correlated based on prior work that has shown convergence between these two assessment types (Van der Graaff et al, 2016; Westbury & Neumann, 2008).…”

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Measuring Empathy Across the Adult Lifespan: A Comparison of Three Assessment Types

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Empathy is a core component of social cognition that can be indexed via behavioral, informant-report, or self-report methods of assessment. However, concerns have been raised regarding the lack of convergence between these assessment approaches for cognitive empathy. Here, we provided the first comparison of all three measurement approaches for cognitive and affective empathy in a large adult sample ( N = 371) aged 18 to 101 years. We found that poor convergence was more of a problem for cognitive empathy than affective empathy. While none of the cognitive empathy measures correlated with each other, for affective empathy, self-report was significantly associated with both behavioral and informant-report assessments. However, for both cognitive and affective empathy, there was evidence for poor discriminant validity within the measures. Out of the three assessment approaches, only the informant-report measures were consistently associated with indices of social functioning. Importantly, age did not moderate any of the tested relationships, indicating that both the strengths and the limitations of these different types of assessment do not appear to vary as a function of age. These findings highlight the variation that exists among empathy measures and are discussed in relation to their practical implications for the assessment of empathy.

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What is your empathy scale not measuring? The convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity of five empathy scales

Cited by 19 publications

References 74 publications

What is the Link Between Different Components of Empathy and Burnout in Healthcare Professionals? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

What is the Link Between Different Components of Empathy and Burnout in Healthcare Professionals? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

The Little Black Box: Contextualizing Empathy

Measuring Empathy Across the Adult Lifespan: A Comparison of Three Assessment Types

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