Investigating the relationships between empathy, identity styles and commitment in humanities and technical-engineering students

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Seven- hundred and twenty- six undergraduate
students of Tehran universities in the field of
humanities & technical-engineering science have
been studied on empathy aspects, identity styles and
commitment. The "Interpersonal Reactivity Index"
(IRI) (Davis, 1983) and "Identity Style Inventory" (ISI-
6G) (White, Wampler& Winn, 1998) were utilized.
Results of correlation indicated that emotional
empathy had a significantly positive relationship
with normative and avoidance identity styles and
significantly negative correlation with commitment.
Cognitive empathy (Perspective-taking) had a
significantly positive correlation with information
identity style. Multiple regressions analyses suggested
that the most important predictor’s variables for
emotional empathy were respectively: normative
identity style, commitment,sex, educational major and
avoidance identity style. The most important predictor
variable for perspective-taking was information
identity style. Finally, multiple regression analyses
for predicating commitment based on survey
variables suggested that the most important predictor’s
variables for commitment; informative and normative
style were positive and respect to emotional empathy
and avoidance style were negative

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Journal of Psychological Studies
Volume 3, Issue 2
July 2007
Pages 65-90

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