Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) consists of 28 items and measures 4 dimensions of empathy. Each dimension is composed of 7 items. All of the items are scored on a 5-point summative rating scale ranging from 1 "does not describe me well" to 5 "describes me very well."
Content
Grades
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Languages
English
Spanish
Chinese
Other
Other Language/s
Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Swedish
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
28 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Mark Davis
Professor of Psychology
Eckerd College, Dept. of Psychology
Email: davismh@eckerd.edu
Phone: 727-864-8263
Open Access
Yes
Use in Research
Cliffordson, C. (2001). Parents' judgments and students' self-judgments of empathy: The structure of empathy and agreement of judgments based on the interpersonal reactivity index (IRI). European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 17(1), 36. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759.17.1.36
Hojat, M., Mangione, S., Kane, G. C., & Gonnella, J. S. (2005). Relationships between scores of the Jefferson scale of physician empathy (JSPE) and the interpersonal reactivity index (IRI). Medical teacher, 27(7), 625-628. https://doi.org/10.1080/01421590500069744
Hudson-Flege, M., & Thompson, M.P. (2017). Empathy and extracurricular involvement in emerging adulthood: Findings from a longitudinal study of undergraduate college males. Journal of College Student Development 58(5), 674-684. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2017.0053
Murphy, H., Tubritt, J., & James, O. (2018). The role of empathy in preparing teachers to tackle bullying. Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 7(1), 17-23. https://www.learntechlib.org/p/182221/
Psychometrics
Scoring
Manual scoring
Psychometric References
Fernández, A. M., Dufey, M., & Kramp, U. (2011). Testing the psychometric properties of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) in Chile. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 27(1), 179-185. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000065
Gilet, A. L., Mella, N., Studer, J., Grühn, D., & Labouvie-Vief, G. (2013). Assessing dispositional empathy in adults: A French validation of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 45(1), 42-48. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030425
Hawk, S. T., Keijsers, L., Branje, S. J., Graaff, J. V. D., Wied, M. D., & Meeus, W. (2013). Examining the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) among early and late adolescents and their mothers. Journal of Personality Assessment, 95(1), 96-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2012.696080
Lucas-Molina, B., Pérez-Albéniz, A., Ortuño-Sierra, J., & Fonseca-Pedrero, E. (2017). Dimensional structure and measurement invariance of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) across gender. Psicothema, 29(4), 590-595. https://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2017.19
Item Type
Likert
