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Emotional Empathy And Reasons For Living In Substance-Using College Students., Daniel Scott Merwin
Emotional Empathy And Reasons For Living In Substance-Using College Students., Daniel Scott Merwin
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This study examined emotional empathy and reasons for living in substance using college students. Participants included 49 males and 120 females, ages 18 to 54 years (M = 21.95) from undergraduate psychology classes. A packet containing a substance abuse scale, a short demographic, Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale (BEES), and Reasons for Living Inventory (RFL) was administered. The independent variables were gender and levels of substance use. The dependent variables were reasons for living scores and emotional empathy scores.
A 2 (gender) X 3 (level of substance use) Analysis of Variance was used. For empathy, a main effect was found for …