Sepideh Safiri Hassan Abadi; Sepide Safiri Hasanabadi; Mahmoud Reza shahsavari
Abstract
Objective: This paper is presented with the aim of confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis of psychometric properties of Toronto Empathy Questionnaire and its adaptation to Persian language is presented. Method: The present paper is a descriptive, applied and correlational study and has been written ...
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Objective: This paper is presented with the aim of confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis of psychometric properties of Toronto Empathy Questionnaire and its adaptation to Persian language is presented. Method: The present paper is a descriptive, applied and correlational study and has been written with the aim of development-psychometrics. the statistical population consisted of 400 students of Islamic Azad University of Garmsar which was selected by available sampling method. The data were analyzed using SPSS and LISREL software. Results: the results were exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The results showed that the questionnaire with an average reliability coefficient of 0.59 and a KMO of 0.702 had acceptable adequacy. This article is based on three different studies that the difference is in the number of constituent elements the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire. A third study combines the first two studies, has consisted of a first-order general factor of empathy and five second-order factors. The fit indices obtained, indicate the appropriate fit of the model. The overall score reliability in Cronbach's alpha method is 0.92 and in the retesting method is 0.88, which are good reliability coefficients. Conclusion: Toronto Empathy Questionnaire was created to eliminate diversity in valuation in empathy components and create a single-component version with high psychometric characteristics, with 10 items and 96.58% explanation of empathy variance in Iranian student population, this questionnaire was confirmed.
