Assessment
name: Interpersonal Reactivity Inventory
(IRI)
Scale
overview: The
28-item Interpersonal Reactivity Inventory (IRI) measures a four aspects of a person’s
reactivity to others: Perspective -taking (IRI–PT),
Empathic Concern (IRI–EC), Personal Distress, (IRI–PD), and Fantasy.
Author: Mark Davis
Response
Type: Self-report 5-point rating scale.
Scale items:
There are four
7-item rating scales. Each item is rated from A to E with the anchors
reflecting a degree of self-description: A = Does not describe me well, E =
Describes very well.
Perspective
-Taking (IRI–PT) measures cognitive empathy, or the tendency to see the
world from others’ viewpoints: “I sometimes try to understand my friends better
by imagining how things look from their perspective.”
Empathic
Concern (IRI–EC) measures emotional empathy, or feelings of compassion
for others in distress: “I often have
tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me.”
Personal
Distress, (IRI–PD) measures self-focused responses to others’ suffering “When I see someone who badly needs help in
an emergency, I go to pieces.”
Fantasy measures
empathy for fictional characters: “I really get involved with the feelings of
the characters in a novel.”
Psychometric
properties
Davis
(1983) reported adequate internal and test-retest reliability values from
previous research. Correlations with other measures can be found in Davis
(1983). The correlations suggest early support for concurrent validity.
Availability:
Fetzer
measures: https://fetzer.org/sites/default/files/images/stories/pdf/selfmeasures/EMPATHY-InterpersonalReactivityIndex.pdf
Eckerd
College https://www.eckerd.edu/psychology/iri/
Reference
for the scale
Davis, M. H. (1983). Measuring individual differences in
empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach. Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, 44(1), 113–126. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.44.1.113
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