Measuring Empathy and the relationship with Cognition of adaptation in daily life of Junior High School Students.

The purpose of this study was to consider a measure of the empathy of Junior high school students and to examine the relationship between empathy and cognition of adaptation at home, in school and in interpersonal relationship. The study used The Empathy Scale for children (Sakurai 1986) and a 5-item questionnaire to determine the cognition of adaptation in daily life. The results showed a significant correlation between empathy and cognition of adaptation in daily life and also showed variation according to grade level. (In the second grade, both empathy and cognition of adaptation in daily life points found low, and in the third grade empathy points was high.)3KJ00004311223departmental bulletin pape