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Interpersonal Reactivity Index

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militants returning to society after having seen combat. The study encountered more difficulty in obtaining valid and reliable findings than previous studies. They attributed this difficulty largely due to the lack of education of the participants, which resulted in the introspective and abstract
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in couples rather than individuals. This was achieved by rewording some phrases used in the original, for example replacing references to "people" and "somebody" to be "my partner," etc. Several couples were also asked to return after twelve months to be re-evaluated. This new version still
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Garcia-Barrera, M. A., Karr, J. E., Trujillo-Orrego, N., Trujillo-Orrego, S., & Pineda, D. A. (2017). Evaluating empathy in Colombian ex-combatants: Examination of the internal structure of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) in Spanish. Psychological Assessment, 29(1), 116-122.
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De Corté, K., Buysse, A., Verhofstadt, L. L., Roeyers, H., Ponnet, K., & Davis, M. H. (2007). Measuring empathic tendencies: Reliability and validity of the Dutch version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index. Psychologica Belgica, 47(4), 235-260.
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Péloquin, K., & Lafontaine, M. (2010). Measuring empathy in couples: Validity and reliability of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index for couples. Journal of Personality Assessment, 92(2), 146-157.
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Garcia-Barrera, Karr, Trujillo-Orrego, Trujillo-Orrego, and Pineda (2017) translated and modified the IRI into a
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11. I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective.
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MH Davis. "Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach".
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in the returning couples, correlating relationship satisfaction and each partner's empathy.
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28. Before criticizing somebody, I try to imagine how I would feel if I were in their place.
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The paper describing IRI, published in 1983, has been cited over 10,000 times, according to
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Another study by Péloquin and Lafontaine (2010) adapted the IRI to specifically measure
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ranging from "Does not describe me well" to "Describes me very well".
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IRI s a self-report comprising 28-items answered on a 5-point
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A study by De Corte et al. (2007) translated the IRI into
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version. This version was used to measure empathy in
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adequately measured empathy as well as demonstrated
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measurement tool
empathy
Eckerd College
Google Scholar
Likert scale
Perspective Taking
psychological
Empathic Concern
sympathy
Personal Distress
Dutch
empathy
predictive validity
Colombian Spanish
Colombian



MH Davis. "Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach".
User profiles for "MH Davis"



"Interpersonal Reactivity Index" on Eckerd College website
Mark H. Davis web page on Eckerd College website
Categories
Personality tests
Interpersonal relationships

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