Psychometric properties of the spanish version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy: making sense of the total score through a second order confirmatory factor analysis

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dc.contributor.author	Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra
dc.contributor.author	Costa, Patrício
dc.contributor.author	Elorduy Hernández-Vaquero, Marta
dc.contributor.author	Virumbrales Cancio, Montserrat
dc.contributor.author	Costa, Manuel J.
dc.contributor.author	Palés, Jorge
dc.date	2020-01-25T15:36:56Z
dc.date	2020-01-25T15:36:56Z
dc.date	2016-09-19
dc.identifier	Ferreira-Valente, Alexandra; Costa, Patrício; Elorduy, Marta [et al.]. Psychometric properties of the spanish version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy: making sense of the total score through a second order confirmatory factor analysis. BMC Medical Education volume, 2016, vol. 16, p. 1-12. Disponible en: <https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-016-0763-5#article-info>. Fecha de acceso: 25 ene. 2020. DOI: 10.1186/s12909-016-0763-5
dc.identifier	1472-6920
dc.identifier	https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-016-0763-5
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12328/1433
dc.description	Background: Empathy is a key aspect of the physician-patient interactions. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) is one of the most used empathy measures of medical students. The development of cross-cultural empathy studies depends on valid and reliable translations of the JSE. This study sought to: (1) adapt and assess the psychometric properties in Spanish students of the Spanish JSE validated in Mexican students; (2) test a second order latent factor model. Methods: The Spanish JSE was adapted from the Spanish JSE-S, resulting in a final version of the measure. A non-probabilistic sample of 1104 medical students of two Spanish medical schools completed a socio-demographic and the Spanish JSE-S. Descriptive statistics, along with a confirmatory factor analysis, the average variance extracted (AVE), Cronbach’s alphas and composite reliability (CR) coefficients were computed. An independent samples t-test was performed to access sex differences. Results: The Spanish JSE-S demonstrated acceptable to good sensitivity (individual items – except for item 2 – and JSE-S total score: −2.72 < Sk < 0.35 and −0.77 < Ku < 7.85), convergent validity (AVE: between 0.28 and 0.45) and reliability (Cronbach’s alphas: between 0.62 and 0.78; CR: between 0.62 and 0.87). The confirmatory factor analysis supported the three-factor solution and the second order latent factor model. Conclusions: The findings provide support for the sensitivity, construct validity and reliability of the adapted Spanish JSE-S with Spanish medical students. Data confirm the hypothesized second order latent factor model. This version may be useful in future research examining empathy in Spanish medical students, as well as in cross-cultural studies.
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dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Springer Nature
dc.relation	BMC Medical Education
dc.relation	16;
dc.rights	© 2016 The Author(s). Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Empatia
dc.subject	Qualitat de vida
dc.subject	Educació mèdica
dc.subject	Psicometria
dc.subject	Empatía
dc.subject	Calidad de vida
dc.subject	Medicina -- Educación
dc.subject	Psicometría
dc.subject	Empathy
dc.subject	Life, Quality of
dc.subject	Medical education
dc.subject	Psychometrics
dc.subject	61
dc.title	Psychometric properties of the spanish version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy: making sense of the total score through a second order confirmatory factor analysis
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