The inconsistent definition of empathy has had a negative impact on both research and
practice. The aim of this article is to review and critically appraise a range of definitions of …

Background Depression is associated with problems in social functioning. Impaired
empathic abilities might underlie this association. Empathy is a multidimensional construct …

The concept of empathy has received a lot of attention in the past few decades in public
media, academia, national and international politics, arts, ethics, health professions …

Empathy is an essential part of normal social functioning, yet there are precious few
instruments for measuring individual differences in this domain. In this article we review …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the usefulness of factor analysis in developing and
evaluating personality scales that measure limited domain constructs The approach …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Empathy A Social Psychological Approach Mark H. Davis Eckerd
College Routledge Taylor & Francis Croup New York London Page 3 Social Psychology Series …

Following recent developments in the measurement of individual differences in nonverbal
social skills, we proposed a conceptual framework for defining and assessing basic social …

A 16-item scale is developed to measure the degree to which salespeople practice adaptive
selling—the degree to which they alter their sales presentation across and during customer …

Background. Empathy plays a key role in social understanding, but its empirical
measurement has proved difficult. The Empathy Quotient (EQ) is a self-report scale …

Attitude, personality, and customer knowledge antecedents were compared in their
predictive ability of 3 service-oriented forms of employee organizational citizenship …