Suitability of a three-dimensional model to measure empathy and its relationship with social and normative adjustment in Spanish adolescents: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

(1) To examine the psychometric properties of the Basic Empathy Scale (BES) with Spanish adolescents, comparing a two and a three-dimensional structure;(2) To analyse the relationship between the three-dimensional empathy and social and normative adjustment in school.

Design

Transversal and ex post facto retrospective study. Confirmatory factorial analysis, multifactorial invariance analysis and structural equations models were used.

Participants

747 students (51.3% girls) from Cordoba, Spain, aged 12-17 years (M=13.8; SD=1.21).

Results

The original two-dimensional structure was confirmed (cognitive empathy, affective empathy), but a three-dimensional structure showed better psychometric properties, highlighting the good fit found in confirmatory fac

SUBMITTER: Herrera-Lopez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623524 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature