Webster Stephen D
HM Prison Service, SOTP, Room 725, Abell House, John Islip Street, London SW14 4LH, England.
Sex Abuse. 2002 Oct;14(4):281-300. doi: 10.1177/107906320201400401.
In attempting to enhance victim empathy, it is common to have sexual offenders write an apology letter to their victim. This task is thought to reveal the level of empathy that the sexual offender has for his victim. However, until now there has been no reliable method for judging the quality of empathy revealed in the victim letter. This paper reports the development and evaluation of 2 templates to score letters written to child victims and adult victims, respectively. An acceptable level of interrater reliability was obtained for the templates. Deficits revealed by the templates did not correlate with scores on a generic empathy measure but did correlate with scales measuring minimization and denial. The measures were also sensitive to change following empathy training.
在试图增强性犯罪者的受害者同理心时，让性犯罪者给受害者写道歉信是很常见的做法。这项任务被认为可以揭示性犯罪者对其受害者的同理心水平。然而，到目前为止，还没有可靠的方法来判断受害者信件中所揭示的同理心质量。本文报告了分别用于给儿童受害者和成年受害者所写信件评分的2个模板的开发和评估情况。这些模板获得了可接受的评分者间信度水平。模板所揭示的缺陷与一般同理心测量的分数不相关，但与测量淡化和否认的量表相关。这些测量方法对同理心训练后的变化也很敏感。
