An index of empathy for children and adolescents Turkey reliability and validity work

The aim of this study is to investigate the reliability and validity of the Turkish versions of An Index of Empathy for Children and Adolescents. The scale is a self-report inventory developed by Bryant (1982) to assess the empathy skills of students in grades 1 to 7. This research is done among students; 8 years old (n= 103), 9 years old (n=112), 10 years old (n=206), 11 years old (n=249), 12 years old (n=162), 13 years old (n=146), 14 years old (n=165) and total number 1143. 572 of these students are female and 57? of them is male. For reliability, the value of Kuder Richarson 20 is calculated as 0,70 and the test-retest correlation coefficient is found to be 0.76. For validity, correlations testing the relationship of An Index of Empathy for Children and Adolescents KA-Sİ Empathic Tendency Scale- are used. The correlations between the KA-Sİ Empathic Tendency Scale- Child Form and An Index of Empathy for Children and Adolescents were computed as 0.60 and the correlations coefficient is computed 0.64 between the KA-Sİ Empathic Tendency Scale- Adolescent Form and An Index of Empathy for Children and Adolescents. After the elimination of item 2, the final results resew acceptable reliability and validity. As a conclussion, this scale has adequate psychometric properties to be used for the range of age 8 to 14 in Turkey.