There are many free and commercially available instruments that purport to measure empathy or constructs of empathy. This presentation will offer an analysis of a number of these, looking at the constructs within the instruments themselves and the reliability and validity testing that underpins their development. The findings from this analysis will then be assessed against Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration in an attempt to determine the degree to which empathy instruments ‘measure up’ against the dynamisms of Syntony and Empathy as outlined within Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration.
History
Publication title
The Twelfth International Dabrowski Congress
Department/School
College Office - College of Sciences and Engineering