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An Empirical Investigation of the Construct Validity of Empathic Understanding Ratings
Author(s) -
AVERY ARTHUR W.,
D'AUGELLI ANTHONY R.,
DANISH STEVEN J.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1976.tb01905.x
Subject(s) - empathy , psychology , statement (logic) , construct (python library) , social psychology , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , political science , computer science , law , programming language
This study examined the effect of different amounts of client‐therapist interaction data on empathy ratings. Audiotaped therapist‐client interactions including client statement, therapist response, and subsequent client response were rated for therapist empathy by high‐functioning, experienced raters. Raters made significantly different judgments about levels of therapist empathy depending on the amount of therapist‐client interaction data available. The raters tended to give therapist responses higher empathy ratings when they did not hear the client's preceding statement.