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Development and psychometric characteristics of analog measures of parental empathy

Samantha Gonzalez; Christina M Rodriguez; Soo Hyun Rhee

Originally published 2021-11-04 · PLoS ONE
PLOS · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0259522 ↗

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How does a task about a child’s feelings differ from asking a parent about empathy?

For the Kindness section, this study offers a way to examine what performance tasks reveal about parental empathy compared with questionnaires.

Who was studied?

212 parents in the second study following an initial pilot with university students

Age / stage: Adults parenting children

Read with three questions

  1. How did the authors investigate what performance tasks reveal about parental empathy compared with questionnaires?
  2. What exactly does the measure score, and who decides whether an observation meets the definition?
  3. How did findings from the student pilot compare with those from the sample of 212 parents?

Keep the limits in view

Performance on an analog task may differ from how a parent responds under time pressure to their own child.

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Samantha Gonzalez; Christina M Rodriguez; Soo Hyun Rhee (2021). Development and psychometric characteristics of analog measures of parental empathy PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259522

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