Is the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy measuring two or five dimensions? Evidence in a French sample
| Autor: | Antoine Malézieux, Franck Zenasni, Paul Roux, Eric Brunet-Gouet, Léonore Robieux, Nils Myszkowski, Emilie Boujut |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Sample (statistics) Empathy 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Cognition Surveys and Questionnaires Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Translations Biological Psychiatry media_common Language Psychological Tests 05 social sciences Affective empathy Psychiatry and Mental health Affect Scale (social sciences) Cognitive empathy Female Psychology Construct (philosophy) Factor Analysis Statistical Social psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatry research. 255 |
| ISSN: | 1872-7123 |
| Popis: | Although many instruments measure empathy, most of them focus on specific facets (e.g., Spreng et al., 2009) or specific contexts (e.g. Wang et al., 2003) of empathy. For this reason, the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE; Reniers et al., 2011) was recently built to grasp the general construct of empathy through its Affective-Cognitive duality, although not providing clear-cut results about the bidimensionality of the scale. In this study, Confirmatory Factor Analyses were conducted on the responses of 418 adults on the French QCAE (backtranslated for this study). A total of 8 models were tested - including the models of the original investigation. The 5-correlated factors model had the best fit, and the pattern of correlations between the factors did not support the Cognitive-Affective distinction. The QCAE is discussed as showing signs of psychometrical robustness, but also as a tool that is more 5-dimensional than bidimensional. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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