A response to Pabst and Maurage: In defense of empathy self-report measures.
A response to Pabst and Maurage: In defense of empathy self-report measures.
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对帕布斯特和莫拉奇的回应:捍卫同理心自我报告措施。
DOI:
10.1111/add.16281
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2023
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Kumar,Lakshmi
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Creswell,KaseyG;Kumar,Lakshmi
Reply by the current authors to the comments made by Arthur Pabst and Pierre Maurage (see record 2023-98310-009) on the original article (see record 2022-67677-001). The authors disagree that empathy behavioral tasks should be prioritized over self-report questionnaires for ‘indexing objective ability.’Pabst and Maurage argue that behavioral tasks are preferred because individuals with AUD may be poor judges of their empathic abilities and self-report empathy measures correlate weakly with behavioral measures. They suggest that empathy behavioral tasks accurately convey information about empathy, whereas self-reports do not. We find this problematic for two reasons. First, there are theoretical and methodological explanations for weak associations between empathy self-report and behavioral measures beyond assuming a lack of insight about empathic abilities. Theoretically, weak associations may be because empathy self-report and behavioral tasks require different response processes. Behavioral tasks focus on in the-moment ‘behavioral snapshots’ of empathic abilities and may be influenced by contextual features (eg mood, motivation), whereas self-report questionnaires ask individuals to reflect on and average their empathy across various real-life situations. Methodologically, weak associations between empathy self reports and behavioral measures may be because of the latter’s poor psychometric properties and/or lack of ecological validity. Self-report measures of empathy play a fundamental role in the young science of empathy, and a meta-analysis can help reveal places where there may be important predictive associations, based on theory.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)