Abstract
ABSTRACTOBJECTIVESEmpathy is an essential ability that allows us to tune into how others are feeling or thinking. Empathy makes it possible to resonate with others’ positive and negative feelings alike so that we can thus feel happy when we vicariously share the joy of others and we can share the experience of suffering when we empathize with someone in pain. Empathy training not only promotes prosocial behaviour, but also augments positive affect and resilience, which in turn fosters better coping with stressful situations. The Empathy Quotient (EQ) is a self-report questionnaire that was developed to measure the cognitive, affective, and behavioural aspects of empathy. Here, we aimed to examine the validity, reliability, and factor structure of the EQ in a Turkish sample.METHODSParticipants were 436 mostly college students and civil servants (195 female, 241 male). Sociodemographic information, the Turkish version of the EQ, Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MC-SDS) 33-item full version and MC-S...
Highlights
Empathy is the ability to understand or experience what another person is feeling from within the other person’s frame of reference
Turkish Empathy Quotient (EQ) EQ is a 60-item self-report scale that is developed by Simon Baron-Cohen in 2004
Marlowe-Crowne social desirability scale Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MC-SDS) is a self-report scale composed of 33 items and developed by Crowne and Marlow in 1960
Summary
Empathy is the ability to understand or experience what another person is feeling from within the other person’s frame of reference. As empathy has a multidimensional nature, empathy researchers have traditionally fallen into two camps; theorists who have explained empathy in terms of affect, and theorists who have explained it in terms of cognition. Empathy involves both emotion sharing and executive control to modulate this experience by specific and interacting neural systems [8]. Both approaches are essential to defining empathy and the cognitive and affective components of empathy co-exist and cannot be separated [1].
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