About the Measure
| Domains | Social and Emotional Competence |
| Key stages | Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
| Subscales | Perspective Taking; Fantasy; Empathic concern; Personal distress |
| Description | A new individual difference measure assessing four aspects of empathy, two of which may be termed cognitive and two that refer to the respondents' emotional reactivity. |
| Example | I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective |
| Link | https://www.eckerd.edu/psychology/iri/ |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 28 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 11-18 |
| Cost single purchase | Free |
| Cost per child | Free |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .67-.87 |
| Test retest | Not reported |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | Not reported |
| CFA | 4-factor model Early/late adolescent samples SB-Chi-square(48)= 78.69/94.20 CFI= .96/.96 RMSEA= .05/.07 SRMR= .05/.05 |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | Not reported |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not Applicable (NA) |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Hawk, S. T., Keijsers, L., Branje, S. J., Graaff, J. V. D., Wied, M. D., & Meeus, W. (2013). Examining the interpersonal reactivity index (IRI) among early and late adolescents and their mothers. Journal of Personality Assessment, 95(1), 96-106. doi:10.1080/00223891.2012.696080 |