| Literature DB >> 20688954 |
Sara H Konrath1, Edward H O'Brien, Courtney Hsing.
Abstract
The current study examines changes over time in a commonly used measure of dispositional empathy. A cross-temporal meta-analysis was conducted on 72 samples of American college students who completed at least one of the four subscales (Empathic Concern, Perspective Taking, Fantasy, and Personal Distress) of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) between 1979 and 2009 (total N = 13,737). Overall, the authors found changes in the most prototypically empathic subscales of the IRI: Empathic Concern was most sharply dropping, followed by Perspective Taking. The IRI Fantasy and Personal Distress subscales exhibited no changes over time. Additional analyses found that the declines in Perspective Taking and Empathic Concern are relatively recent phenomena and are most pronounced in samples from after 2000.Mesh：
Year: 2010 PMID： 20688954 DOI： 10.1177/1088868310377395
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Pers Soc Psychol Rev ISSN： 1532-7957