Sentence examples for empathy scale from inspiring English sources

And while he acknowledged that some Americans were hurting, his remarks certainly didn't register very high on the empathy scale.

These youngsters are frequently painted by the media and others as unworthy; they are very low down on the empathy scale.

(He points out, though, that some people at this extreme display no more cruelty than those higher up the empathy scale – they are simply socially isolated).

Results showed that women outscored men on the empathy scale.

Rather, it indicates a principal limitation of any empathy scale relying on self-reports.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the reliability and validity of the Multidimensional Emotional Empathy Scale (MDEES).

Remarkably, no significant correlation has been found between the scores on various empathy scales and the measurement of empathic accuracy.

Dispositional empathy has been measured either by relying on the reports of others (particularly in case of children) or, most often (in researching empathy in adults), by relying on the administration of various questionnaires associated with specific empathy scales.

Help for devising new empathy scales or for further validating existing questionnaires could also come from the neurosciences that have very recently begun to contribute to the study of empathy and have begun to investigate the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of perspective taking (for a survey see Decety and Jackson 2004).

There are five direct effects, those motivated or interested more by science and research tending to have higher openness to experience, higher neuroticism, lower agreeableness, more personal distress on the empathy scales, and to be male.

The relatively small sample size and the fact that both instruments of the emotional and cognitive empathy scales were not validated in Ethiopia are the main limitations of this study.