Effects of social-cognitive training on students' empathy
Abstract
The study evaluated the effect of a school-based social-cognitive training program on 14- and 15-year-old students'empathy. Two instruments were used, an empathy subscale derived from Gresham and Elliot's Social Skills Rating System and Olweus' Empathic Responsiveness Questionnaire. Significant shifts in the direction of higher empathy were found for students in the training condition but not for students in the comparison condition. No interaction effects between condition (training or comparison) and students' sex were found.
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