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Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking: Linear and Quadratic Effects of Age Across the Adult Life Span
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OBJECTIVE: We investigated linear and quadratic effects of age on self-reported empathy in three large cross-sectional samples of American adults aged 18-90 years. METHOD: Participants completed subscales of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis, 1983), allowing us to independently assess an emotional component of empathy ("empathic concern") and a cognitive component of empathy ("perspective taking") across the adult life span. RESULTS: For both measures and in all three samples, we found evidence for an inverse-U-shaped pattern across age: Middle-aged adults reported higher empathy than both young adults and older adults. We also found a consistent gender difference: Women reported more empathy than men. We did not find systematic differences by ethnicity. However, neither gender nor ethnicity interacted with age effects. DISCUSSION: We discuss the inverse-U-shaped age pattern, in terms of aging versus cohort influences, and how it complements and extends the existing literature on empathy and age.
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- O'Brien, E., Konrath, S. H., Gruhn, D., & Hagen, A. L.
- Venue
- The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
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- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2012-08-03
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- 68
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 168-175
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- 1079-5014 (ISSN-L)
- 1758-5368
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