Graphical Modelling and Causal Inference
Published July 1, 2018 | Version v2
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Empathy

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Description

This dataset captures the relational behaviour of 1973 French-speaking students from several universities or schools for higher education in the following fields: engineering (31%), medicine (18%), nursing school (16%), economic sciences (15%), physiotherapy, (4%), psychology (11%), law school (4%) and dietetics (1%). The subjects were 17 to 25 years old (M = 19.6 years, SD = 1.6 years), 57% were females and 43% were males. 

The feature set is composed of 28 items meant to assess the four following components: fantasy, perspective taking, empathic concern and personal distress. In the questionnaire, the items are shuffled; reversed items (items 3, 4, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19) are present. Items are scored from 0 to 4, where “0” means “Doesn’t describe me very well” and “4” means “Describes me very well”; reverse-scoring is calculated afterwards. The questionnaires were anonymized. The reanalysis of the database in this retrospective study was approved by the ethical committee of the Erasmus Hospital. (Briganti et al., 2018)

 

Task: The dataset can be used to study causal discovery methods.

 

Summary: 

  • Size of dataset: 1973 x 18
  • Task: Causal Discovery Problem
  • Data Type: Categorical Data
  • Dataset Scope: Standalone Dataset
  • Ground Truth: Unknown Graph
  • Temporal Structure: Static Data
  • License: CC BY 4.0 (see https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/b8d5n5h3gc/1)
  • Missing Values: Existing Missing Values

 

Missingness Statement: Even though the full dataset was composed of 1973 participants, only 1270 answered the full questionnaire. In Briganti et al. (2018), missing data are handled using pairwise complete observations in estimating a Gaussian Graphical Model, meaning that all available information from every subject was used.

 

Features:

Feature Feature Label Domain Item meaning from Davis 1980
001 1FS Green I daydream and fantasize, with some regularity, about things that might happen to me.
002 2EC Purple I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me.
003 3PT_R Yellow I sometimes find it difficult to see things from the “other guy’s” point of view.
004 4EC_R Purple Sometimes I don’t feel very sorry for other people when they are having problems.
005 5FS Green I really get involved with the feelings of the characters in a novel.
006 6PD Red In emergency situations, I feel apprehensive and ill-at-ease.
007 7FS_R Green I am usually objective when I watch a movie or play, and I don’t often get completely caught up in it.(Reversed)
008 8PT Yellow I try to look at everybody’s side of a disagreement before I make a decision.
009 9EC Purple When I see someone being taken advantage of, I feel kind of protective towards them.
010 10PD Red I sometimes feel helpless when I am in the middle of a very emotional situation.
011 11PT Yellow sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective
012 12FS_R Green Becoming extremely involved in a good book or movie is somewhat rare for me. (Reversed)
013 13PD_R Red When I see someone get hurt, I tend to remain calm. (Reversed)
014 14EC_R Purple Other people’s misfortunes do not usually disturb me a great deal. (Reversed)
015 15PT_R Yellow If I’m sure I’m right about something, I don’t waste much time listening to other people’s arguments. (Reversed)
016 16FS Green After seeing a play or movie, I have felt as though I were one of the characters.
017 17PD Red Being in a tense emotional situation scares me.
018 18EC_R Purple When I see someone being treated unfairly, I sometimes don’t feel very much pity for them. (Reversed)
019 19PD_R Red I am usually pretty effective in dealing with emergencies. (Reversed)
020 20FS Green I am often quite touched by things that I see happen.
021 21PT Yellow I believe that there are two sides to every question and try to look at them both.
022 22EC Purple I would describe myself as a pretty soft-hearted person.
023 23FS Green When I watch a good movie, I can very easily put myself in the place of a leading character.
024 24PD Red I tend to lose control during emergencies.
025 25PT Yellow When I’m upset at someone, I usually try to “put myself in his shoes” for a while.
026 26FS Green When I am reading an interesting story or novel, I imagine how I would feel if the events in the story were happening to me.
027 27PD Red When I see someone who badly needs help in an emergency, I go to pieces.
028 28PT Yellow Before criticizing somebody, I try to imagine how I would feel if I were in their place

 

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Related works

Is derived from
10.1016/j.psychres.2018.03.082. (DOI)

References

  • "Network analysis of empathy items from the Interpersonal Reactivity Index in 1973 young adults" Giovanni Briganti, Chantal Kempenaers, Stéphanie Brauna , Eiko I. Friedb, Paul Linkowski, Psychiatry Research 265, 87-92, 2018