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
Topics were tailored in response to the specific concerns of burden, physical / practical concerns, emotional
reactivity, self - needs and social support endorsed by Singaporean caregivers on the Caregiver Quality of Life
Index - Cancer (CQOLC) in the study mentioned earlier.38 The content of each session is described here:
At baseline, behavioral signs of stress
reactivity in children's peer entry behavior were significantly associated with parent ratings of child internalizing behavior (r = 0.37, P <.001), child dysregulation (r = 0.30, P =.004), and 2 different
indices of disruptive behavior during parent - child play interactions (r = 0.45, P <.001; r = 0.35, P =.008).40 The peer entry procedure appears to be stressful in general and to elicit more signs of stress in children with mental health problems.
An
index of emotion - related physiological arousal — cortisol
reactivity — and subjective emotion regulation have both been independently linked to substance use and psychological difficulties among youth.
A cumulative
index approach was used to aggregate variables from these procedures into composite measures of neonatal
reactivity.