I am looking for a situational empathy questionnaire, (not dispositional empathy) to measure empathy after a manipulation that I hypothesize that will increase empathy.
I am not aware of such a scale, probably because empathy has been conceptualized to be more of a trait variable, than a state variable. The IRI and other empathy measures assume that you are either high or low on empathy over a period of time - they do not specify or reduce the temporal frame of reference when administering the scales, since they measure variables that, "in general" describe the respondent, or do not. Perhaps you may adapt one of the more robust measures of (trait) empathy, by rephrasing, piloting and standardizing the questions to suit your trait measurement needs. For instance, you can try and add "right now" or "currently" to existing items. I'm unsure whether this will work (or whether it'll help you develop a consistent tool), but this is all I could think of. Hope it's of some use :)
Hi Haniska
Thanks allot for your answer!
I'll take your advice while developing a consistent tool for measuring situational empathy:)
Hi Liad,
Did you ever find anything for situational empathy ( or develop anything that worked)? I am having a hard time finding something myself for my upcoming dissertation. I look forward to hearing from you!
Hello Llad
I'm interested in this as well. Have you come up with something?
Gareth
Hi Karin and Gareth
I actually built a situational empathy questionnaire, but it is optimized for the specific experimental condition, and did not yield yet to conclusive results. Thus I have inconclusive recommendation on this matter. If you have further questions about the process of the composition of the questionnaire, I would love to share.
Good luck!
Liad
Thank you for your response ( and sorry if I am pestering you)! Would it be ok with you if I took a look at it? If anything just to see what your questions were like and how you framed it? I am struggling with wording and structure on the measure I am creating.
I am not sure how to send things on research gate, but my email address is [email protected]
Actually, you can also attach it here. When you go to reply to a comment/message it gives you the option of attaching a file.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2775495/#R16
http://www.midss.org/content/toronto-empathy-questionnaire
This is an old topic, but I thought I'd chime in in case it helped anyone. A few of my students were looking for the same thing and found these two articles that attempt to do something along these lines but in different ways. Perhaps not quite what the original poster was looking for but maybe could be adapted.
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/51748148
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/346251
Article The role of anxiety and perspective-taking strategy on affec...
No doubt too late for the original questioner but may be of interest to others - the below paper uses a 6-item scale for state empathy based on a specific vignette which could be useful to evaluate an empathy-inducing intervention.
Haegerich, T. M., & Bottoms, B. L. (2000). Empathy and jurors' decisions in patricide trials involving child sexual assault allegations. Law and Human Behavior, 24, 421-448. Doi: 10.1023/A:1005592213294
No doubt too late for the original questioner but may be of interest to others - the below paper uses a 6-item scale for state empathy based on a specific vignette which could be useful to evaluate an empathy-inducing intervention.
Haegerich, T. M., & Bottoms, B. L. (2000). Empathy and jurors' decisions in patricide trials involving child sexual assault allegations. Law and Human Behavior, 24, 421-448. Doi: 10.1023/A:1005592213294
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