Table 3.

Verification of the CERA scale using responses of 198 pre-test participants.

Empathy Factors and Items 1	Factor Analysis					Reliability
	Factor Loading	Comm. 2	Eigen Value	% of Var. 3	Cum.Var % 4	Cronbach’s α
Cognitive empathy			6.802	28.467	28.467	0.898
1	0.850	0.815
2	0.878	0.844
3	0.836	0.807
4	0.635	0.665
Identification			1.329	28.351	56.818	0.916
1	0.770	0.819
2	0.799	0.844
3	0.839	0.877
4	0.753	0.698
Affective empathy			0.845	24.790	81.608	0.925
1	0.833	0.874
2	0.845	0.889
3	0.839	0.845
KMO	0.921
Bartlett’s test of sphericity	Approximate Chi-square			9415.282
	df (p) 5			55 (0.000)

¹ The content of items was presented in Table 2. ² Comm. refers to communality. ³ % of Var. refers to percentage of variance explained. ⁴ Cum.Var % refers to cumulative variance explained. ⁵ df refers to degree of freedom and (p) refers to p-value.