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Interpersonal Reactivity Index: Analysis of Invariance and Gender Differences in Spanish Youths
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Holgado Tello, Francisco Pablo; Delgado Egido, Begona; Carrasco Ortiz, Miguel A.; Del Barrio Gandara, M. V. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2013
Empathy is understood as a multidimensional construct involving both cognitive and emotional factors for which, traditionally, gender differences have been reported. The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis in Catalog Sel Documents Psychol 10:1-19, 1980) is an instrument made up of four subscales, each measuring a different dimension of the…
Descriptors: Empathy, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship
Understanding Aggression through Attachment and Social Emotional Competence in Korean Middle School Students
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You, Sukkyung; Kim, Ann Y. – School Psychology International, 2016
In recent years, increase in adolescent crime in the Republic of Korea has put adolescent aggression in the spotlight. This study examines whether the quality of attachment to parents and peers influences aggressive behaviors and whether social emotional competencies serve as significant mediators for middle school students. These relationships…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aggression, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents
Teachers' Empathy: Can It Be Predicted by Self-Efficacy?
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Goroshit, Marina; Hen, Meriav – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
Teachers' social-emotional competencies seem to play a significant role in promoting social-emotional learning in schools. Empathic teachers were found to possess a higher level of morality; to communicate more successfully with their students; to encourage them to forge empathic relationships; and to successfully motivate their students. Yet,…
Descriptors: Empathy, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
Impact of Violent Video Games on the Social Behaviors of Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Emotional Competence
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You, Sukkyung; Kim, Euikyung; No, Unkyung – School Psychology International, 2015
Recently, research studies and media have reported on the detrimental effects violent video games have on the social behaviors of adolescents. For example, previous studies have found that playing video games is positively associated with aggressive behaviors and negatively associated with prosocial behaviors. However, very few studies have…
Descriptors: Violence, Video Games, Social Behavior, Self Control
Who Engages with Moral Beauty?
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Diessner, Rhett; Iyer, Ravi; Smith, Meghan M.; Haidt, Jonathan – Journal of Moral Education, 2013
Aristotle considered moral beauty to be the "telos" of the human virtues. Displays of moral beauty have been shown to elicit the moral emotion of elevation and cause a desire to become a better person and to engage in prosocial behavior. Study 1 ("N" = 5380) shows engagement with moral beauty is related to several psychological…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Moral Values, Prosocial Behavior, Personality Traits
Replicating Milgram Would People Still Obey Today?
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Burger, Jerry M. – American Psychologist, 2009
The author conducted a partial replication of Stanley Milgram's (1963, 1965, 1974) obedience studies that allowed for useful comparisons with the original investigations while protecting the well-being of participants. Seventy adults participated in a replication of Milgram's Experiment 5 up to the point at which they first heard the learner's…
Descriptors: Adults, Well Being, Investigations, Empathy