<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>According to the last census, the majority of the Romanian population officially declares itself as Christian. The core value of Christianity is love and compassion towards your neighbour. The objective of this study was to see if there is a correlation between Christian faith and empathy. The study was conducted on Romanian students. We had three groups of students: Atheists/Other Religions, Nominal Christians and Christians who daily practice their faith. For the assessing of empathy we used Davis’s (1980) Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), a self-report instrument and a multidimensional measure of empathy. A comparison of the IRI scores of the three student groups reveals that faith appears to be a predictor of empathy</p></abstract>

According to the last census, the majority of the Romanian population officially declares itself as Christian. The core value of Christianity is love and compassion towards your neighbour. The objective of this study was to see if there is a correlation between Christian faith and empathy. The study was conducted on Romanian students. We had three groups of students: Atheists/Other Religions, Nominal Christians and Christians who daily practice their faith. For the assessing of empathy we used Davis’s (1980) Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), a self-report instrument and a multidimensional measure of empathy. A comparison of the IRI scores of the three student groups reveals that faith appears to be a predictor of empathy

Is Christian Faith a Predictor for Empathy?

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According to the last census, the majority of the Romanian population officially declares itself as Christian. The core value of Christianity is love and...

Is Christian Faith a Predictor for Empathy?

Published Online: Jul 26, 2018

Page range: 306 - 310

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/kbo-2018-0107

Keywords
faith, empathy, Christian, student

© 2018 Valentin Lupu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Is Christian Faith a Predictor for Empathy?

Published Online: Jul 26, 2018

Page range: 306 - 310

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/kbo-2018-0107

Keywordsfaith, empathy, Christian, student

© 2018 Valentin Lupu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
faith, empathy, Christian, student