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Background:

  • The concept of empathy has faced challenges in scholarly discourse for over 50 years.
  • Persistent ambiguities and controversies surround empathy, exacerbated by numerous definitions and measurement tools.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address interrelated problems in empathy research, including definitional inconsistencies and measurement mismatches.
  • To highlight the need for enhanced construct validity research in the study of empathy.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on empathy definitions and measurement instruments.
  • Analysis of conceptual and methodological issues within current empathy research.
  • Presentation of new theoretical insights and research designs in a special issue.

Main Results:

  • Identified persistent issues such as the jingle-jangle problem (inconsistent use of terms for similar constructs or similar terms for different constructs).
  • Highlighted instances where authors' definitions of empathy do not align with their chosen measurement instruments.
  • Emphasized the critical need for rigorous construct validity research.

Conclusions:

  • The accumulation of definitions and measurement tools has accelerated, rather than resolved, conceptual ambiguities in empathy.
  • This special issue offers critical insights and creative research designs to refocus on the core concept of empathy.
  • Further research is essential to establish robust construct validity for empathy measures.