Research using Davis's
Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI, [16][20]-RRB- reveals that individuals vary substantially in the extent to which they are generally predisposed to experience either concern and sympathy (i.e., dispositional empathic concern) or distress and discomfort (i.e., dispositional personal distress) in response to other people's distress [20].
As construed in Davis»
Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI)(Davis, 1980, 1983), empathy can be parsed into four dimensions.
Four dimensions of dispositional empathy based on
the Interpersonal Reactivity Index were measured in all participants — Personal Distress, Empathic Concern, Perspective Taking, and Fantasy.
Testing the psychometric properties of
the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) in Chile: Empathy in a different cultural context
The Interpersonal Reactivity Index, a well - known questionnaire, taps empathy by asking whether responders agree to statements such as «I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me» and «I try to look at everybody's side of a disagreement before I make a decision.»
Since the creation of
the Interpersonal Reactivity Index in 1979, tens of thousands of students have filled out this questionnaire while participating in studies examining everything from neural responses to others» pain to levels of social conservatism.
Not exact matches
Ruminative and Reflective Forms of Self - Focus: Their Relationships with
Interpersonal Skills and Emotional
Reactivity under
Interpersonal Stress.
[jounal] Wei, M. / 2005 / Adult attachment, affect regulation, negative mood, and
interpersonal problems: The mediating roles of emotional
reactivity and emotional cutoff / Journal of Counseling Psychology 52: 14 ~ 24
A review of the evidence on the physiological effects of social status is combined with that of the relationship between gender and status, both within society at large and
interpersonal relationships specifically, to support the subordination -
reactivity hypothesis.
Sex differences in adolescent depression: Stress exposure and
reactivity models in
interpersonal and achievement contextual domains
Off - time pubertal timing predicts physiological
reactivity to postpuberty
interpersonal stress
Person - environment fit and its limits: agreeableness, neuroticism, and emotional
reactivity to
interpersonal conflict.
Because relationship conflict reduces teamwork quality [1] and is an important
interpersonal stressor associated with group work [13]; [14], we build on the differential exposure -
reactivity model to argue that personality influences both the engagement in relationship conflict (stress exposure) as well as the coping strategies mobilized to deal with the stress triggered by it (reaction to stress).
Using the terms of the differential exposure -
reactivity model [23], conscientious group member tend to identify and avoid predictable
interpersonal stressors [28], to preserve harmonious
interpersonal relations and thus they are less likely to be exposed to the stress associated with relationship conflict.
[jounal] Shih, J. H / 2006 / Differential exposure and
reactivity to
interpersonal stress predict sex differences in adolescent depression / Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 35 (1): 103 ~ 115
The experience of relationship conflict increases this dissonance and conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism are important contingencies in this dissonance reduction process as they influence the exposure and
reactivity to
interpersonal stressors.