The young and the empathy recognition: Descriptive analysis of interpersonal reactivity of youth in different social contexts

Abstract

Empathy refers to the functional disposition that people have to exchange experiences exposed unconditionally to the other. These experiences could be different in young by gender, age and social class. The present study aims to evaluate the inter-dimensional relationship in factors of Empathy and the difference in mean response of young people from different socio-institutional contexts. 46 subjects, male and female, 12-21 years of social institution for the care of young people at risk, Christian religious institutions and public school in the city of João Pessoa answered multidimensional scale of interpersonal reactivity Davis. It was found Positive Spearman correlations between dimensions of empathy and the young Christian religious institution and public school had higher mean in regards empathy, perspective taking and empathic fantasy.