2004 15-2 The Development of the Scale of Empathy on Perspective-Taking Stories
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Mei-Ru Chao |
Shi-Kai Chung |
| National Cheng Kung University | National Chengchi University |
The objective of this study is to develop the scale of empathy on perspective-taking stories for reference applicable in research and counseling. This scale includes 16 questions and can be conducted within 10~15 minutes. This study is based on samples from 952 college students in Taiwan with reliability and validity tested. The results have shown:
1. the scale of empathy on perspective-taking stories has reached satisfactory level of internal consistency reliability, tested with Cronbachαcoefficients .67, .73, .70 and .87 for cognitive, emotional, expressive perspective-taking empathy sub-scalesand overall empathy scale respectively; test-retest reliability within four weeks was .83,
2. this scale have a clear factorial structure through confirmatory factor analysis.
Keywords
empathy, emotional perspective-taking empathy, cognitive perspective-taking empathy, expressive perspective-taking empathy, confirmatory factor analysis
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