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A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Of The 22-Item Empathy Assessment Index, Kelly L. Hoskins
A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Of The 22-Item Empathy Assessment Index, Kelly L. Hoskins
Doctor of Education (Ed.D)
The Empathy Assessment Index (EAI), an instrument based on the social cognitive neuroscience conceptualization of empathy, is a measure of interpersonal empathy with five components: affective response, self-other awareness, perspective taking, affective mentalizing, and emotion regulation. However, the most recently added component, affective mentalizing, has demonstrated high correlations with perspective taking. The high correlations may indicate a lack of discriminant validity within the index. This non-experimental, quantitative, and cross-sectional study aimed to determine whether the factor structure of the 22-Item EAI is a correlated five-component model. A snowball sample of 929 community members completed the 22-Item EAI as an online …