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Empathic Accuracy Task: Indian Adaptation and Validation.

Preeti Sinha¹, Urvakhsh M Mehta¹, Anuradha S N^1,2

¹Dept. of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

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The Indian Empathic Accuracy Task (I-EAT) is a validated tool for assessing empathic accuracy in India. It shows good validity and internal consistency across diverse populations, including those with depression and schizophrenia.

Keywords:

Empathic accuracy Indian adaptation cognitive empathy depression older adults schizophrenia

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Psychology
Neuroscience
Clinical Research

Background:

The Empathic Accuracy Task (EAT) is an objective measure for assessing empathic accuracy.
Adaptation of EAT for the Indian sociocultural context resulted in the Indian EAT (I-EAT) due to variations in narrated events and emotions.

Purpose of the Study:

To adapt and validate the Empathic Accuracy Task (EAT) for the Indian sociocultural setting, creating the Indian EAT (I-EAT).
To assess the psychometric properties of I-EAT in diverse Indian populations.

Main Methods:

Eight videos were adapted into English, Hindi, and Kannada, ensuring uniform representation of age, emotions, and sex.
I-EAT was validated through cross-sectional comparison with existing empathy measures and clinical groups (depression, schizophrenia) and healthy controls.

Main Results:

I-EAT demonstrated good content validity and internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.73).
Satisfactory concurrent validity was found with self-reported empathy measures (Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy, Interpersonal Reactivity Index).
Good divergent validity was observed with the Apathy Evaluation Scale (r = -0.67, p < .001), and known-groups validity was adequate in clinical and geriatric groups.

Conclusions:

The Indian EAT (I-EAT) is a psychometrically sound instrument for assessing empathic accuracy in the Indian population.
I-EAT maintains the performance standards of the original EAT while being culturally adapted.