Light Sharee N, Moran Zachary D, Zahn-Waxler Carolyn, Davidson Richard J
Positive Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Mendota Mental Health Institute, Madison, WI, United States.
Front Psychol. 2019 Apr 12;10:815. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00815. eCollection 2019.
Construct validity of a brief self-report measure of "positive-valence empathy" (the tendency to exude positive emotion as a means to stimulate positive affect in others, and/or to vicariously share in another's positive emotion; Light et al., 2009) was attained utilizing a sample of 282 healthy adults. Positive-valence empathy may have unique predictive ability for differentiating depression versus depression with anhedonia. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed a two-factor structure for the final 15-item Light-Moran Positive Empathy Scale (PES), with an 8-item "Empathic Happiness" subscale (e.g., "I find that other people's happiness easily rubs off on me") and a 7-item "Empathic Cheerfulness" subscale (e.g., "I enjoy making others feel good"). "Empathic Happiness" was a significantly better predictor of overall depressive symptomatology (Beck et al., 1996) than anhedonia (Snaith et al., 1995). The Light-Moran PES-15 may have real-world impact and predictive utility for well-being.
利用282名健康成年人的样本，对一种简短的自我报告测量工具“积极共情”（通过流露积极情绪来激发他人的积极情感，和/或替代性地分享他人的积极情绪的倾向；莱特等人，2009年）的结构效度进行了研究。积极共情在区分无快感的抑郁症与普通抑郁症方面可能具有独特的预测能力。验证性因素分析揭示了最终的15项莱特 - 莫兰积极共情量表（PES）的双因素结构，其中包括一个8项的“共情幸福”子量表（例如，“我发现他人的幸福很容易感染我”）和一个7项的“共情愉悦”子量表（例如，“我喜欢让别人感觉良好”）。与无快感（斯奈思等人，1995年）相比，“共情幸福”是总体抑郁症状（贝克等人，1996年）的一个显著更好的预测指标。莱特 - 莫兰PES - 15可能对幸福感具有现实世界的影响和预测效用。
