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Examining the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) among early and late adolescents and their mothers
- Source :
- Journal of Personality Assessment, 95, 96. Taylor and Francis Ltd., Journal of Personality Assessment, 95(1), 96-106. ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2013.
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Abstract
- We examined whether the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI; Davis, 1980Davis, M. H. 1980. A multidimensional approach to individual differences in empathy. Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology, 10: 85 [Google Scholar] ), consisting of Perspective Taking (PT), Empathic Concern (EC), Personal Distress (PD), and Fantasy (FN), is a psychometrically invariant empathy measure for early and late adolescents and their mothers. Confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated adequate properties and psychometric invariance across 2 Dutch samples (269 early adolescents, 232 late adolescents). Females scored higher than males on each subscale. Early adolescents scored lower than late adolescents on PT and FN, and higher on PD. The different groups showed similar subscale associations with psychosocial health indexes, and similar subscale contributions to a higher order empathy dimension. Most dimensions showed positive correlations between adolescents and mothers. The IRI appears adequate for examining empathy across the span of adolescence, as well as patterns between youths and mothers.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Psychometrics
Adolescent
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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Personal distress
050109 social psychology
Empathy
Developmental psychology
Interpersonal relationship
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Taverne
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Psychological testing
Interpersonal Relations
Child
Empathic concern
media_common
Netherlands
Psychological Tests
05 social sciences
Reproducibility of Results
Adolescent Development
Middle Aged
Mother-Child Relations
Clinical Psychology
Interpersonal Reactivity Index
Female
Psychology
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Psychosocial
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00223891
- Volume :
- 95
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Personality Assessment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1b1d5a92f4182ab2d8a8983fb1f0012a