Effects of social-cognitive training on students' empathy 1The study is a part of the project “Evaluation of cognitive skills training in the county of Hordaland”. The training program was initiated and funded by the National Education Office of Hordaland County, which also initiated the evaluation. This latter stage has been funded by a grant from the Royal Ministry of Education, Research and Church Affairs in Norway.
- 1 June 2001
- journal article
- Published by Hogrefe Publishing Group in Swiss Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 60 (2) , 82-88
- https://doi.org/10.1024//1421-0185.60.2.82
Abstract
The study evaluated the effect of a school-based social-cognitive training program on 14- and 15-year-old students'empathy. Two instruments were used, an empathy subscale derived from Gresham and Elliot's Social Skills Rating System and Olweus' Empathic Responsiveness Questionnaire. Significant shifts in the direction of higher empathy were found for students in the training condition but not for students in the comparison condition. No interaction effects between condition (training or comparison) and students' sex were found.Keywords
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