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Diagnostic methods of measuring empathy with focus on Czech adaptation of A Questionnare of Cognitive and Affective Empathy
Bartoš, Josef ; Höschlová, Eva (advisor) ; Jaroš, Jan (referee)
The ability to identify yourself with others, or to understand their emotional states, is one of the fundamental strategies of everyday life. This presented thesis is focused on the theme of empathy and psychodiagnostic potential for measuring it. For this purpose, the author presents an initial theoretical framework, the current notion of empathy based upon multidimensional model. He then shows existing inventories and discusses the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy in a greater detail. The aim of the empirical part is to translate this questionnaire, and to verify its psychometric qualities on the Czech population. The sample consisted of 260 participants (57,7% of women), average age was 30,73 years and standard deviation 9,6 years. To carry on the research, the inventory was parallelly translated by three professionals. The research then investigated the five-factor model through confirmatory factor analysis. The results show that the five-factor model fits the Czech data quite well. Nonetheless, five items had to be excluded due to poor factor loadings (3 from factor online simulation, 1 from factor proximal responsivity, 1 from factor peripheral responsivity); the original 31-item questionnaire has its Czech version with 26 items only. Reliability of internal consistency was...
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