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Actualidades Investigativas en Educación

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BAUTISTA HERNANDEZ, Gildardo; VERA NORIEGA, José Ángel; TANORI QUINTANA, Jesús  and  VALDES CUERVO, Ángel Alberto. Psychometric properties of an scale empathy in junior high school students in Mexico. Rev. Actual. Investig. Educ [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.3, pp.129-149. ISSN 1409-4703.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/aie.v16i3.25959.

This study was conducted with a quantitative descriptive approach aimed to determine the psychometric properties of a scale to measure empathy in adolescents. In this study 2,348 students enrolled in the 2014-1 school year were selected from a population of 88,484, using a non-probability sampling, corresponding to 64 public high school in 17 counties of Sonora, Mexico, of which 1, 151 (49%) were men and 1, 197 (51%) women with a mean age of 13.41 years old. It was found that the scale measuring emotional empathy (α = .81) and cognitive empathy (α = .79) has acceptable fit indices (X2= 92.31; X2/gl= 3.74; AGFI= .98; CVI= .058; CFI= .99; RMSEA= .030; SRMR= .016). It is concluded that the scale has satisfactory psychometric properties to measure the construct in adolescent students in the northwestern region of Mexico, however further validity studies, such as convergent and concurrent evidence, are needed in order to strengthen the psychometric properties of the instrument.

Keywords : empathy; adolescents; junior high schools; psychometric scale.

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