Empathy Assessment Scale

dc.authoridMALAKCIOGLU, CEM/0000-0002-4200-0936
dc.contributor.authorMalakçıoğlu, Cem
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-10T19:57:48Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentİstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractOBJECTIVE: Empathy is a prosocial ability and communication skill to feel, understand, and respond to emotions of others; it includes affective and cognitive behavioral aspects of therapeutic communication. For instance, physicians should commu-nicate empathically with their patients. Thus, empathy levels of medical students should be improved during their education. It is important to comparatively evaluate the dimensions of empathy to have a clearer picture of this ability. The aim of this study is to determine the validity and reliability of the Empathy Assessment Scale (EAS) and its subscales.METHODS: Data were collected between October and December in 2021 from 651 students studying medicine in Istanbul Medeniyet University. Item pool of the scale was developed by the researcher based on the literature review. Two counseling psychologists, two clinical psychologist, and two psychiatrists evaluated the items to detect the face and content validity in the final application form. Both explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA and CFA) were carried out. The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire was also applied for concurrent validity. IBM SPSS 25 and AMOS 24 were utilized to analyze the con-struct and concurrent validities, internal consistency, and test-retest reliabilities.RESULTS: KMO and Bartlett's sphericity tests showed that the dataset was suitable for factor analyses (KMO=0.812, Chi-square=5535.718, df=78). A three-factor structure with 13 items was confirmed by EFA, 67.1% of the variance was explained by these three factors. According to CFA, the factor loads of the items varied between 0.39 and 0.98 and data model fit was suitable according to the fit indices (CFI=0.95, TLI=0.91, RMSEA=0.049, SRMR=0.055, and Chi-square/df=1.316). Concur-rent validity of the scale was also confirmed by the Pearson correlation (r=0.467, p<0.001). The test-retest reliability values (r) within four weeks interval were all above 0.60 at 0.01 significance level. Cronbach's alpha coefficients were 0.845 (EAS total scale score, 13 items), 0.696 (social interaction subscale score, 4 items), 0.802 (cognitive behavior subscale score, 5 items), and 0.964 (emotional identification subscale score, 4 items). CONCLUSION: EAS is a valid and reliable measurement tool to assess the empathy levels of individuals in three dimensions: Social interaction, cognitive behavior, and emotional identification. EAS can be used to evaluate the empathy levels for re-search, educational, and other interventional purposes.
dc.identifier.doi10.14744/nci.2022.55649
dc.identifier.endpage366
dc.identifier.issn2148-4902
dc.identifier.issn2536-4553
dc.identifier.issue4
dc.identifier.pmid36276566
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85164710356
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ4
dc.identifier.startpage358
dc.identifier.trdizinid1130080
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.14744/nci.2022.55649
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1130080
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14730/13340
dc.identifier.volume9
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000864526600011
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.institutionauthorMalakçıoğlu, Cem
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherKare Publ
dc.relation.ispartofNorthern Clinics of Istanbul
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20250302
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectempathy
dc.subjectmedical education
dc.titleEmpathy Assessment Scale
dc.typeArticle

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