Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Adaptation of the Emotional Contagion Scale (ECS) and gender differences within the Greek cultural context. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Adaptation of the Emotional Contagion Scale ECS and gender differences within the Greek cultural context Open Access Pantelis Kevrekidis Petros Skapinakis Dimitris Damigos and Venetsanos Mavreas Address Department of Psychiatry University of Ioannina School of Medicine Ioannina 45110 Greece Email Pantelis Kevrekidis - pkevrek@ Petros Skapinakis - Dimitris Damigos - Venetsanos Mavreas - psychiatry@ Corresponding author Published 21 August 2008 Received 25 March 2008 Accepted 21 August 2008 Annals of General Psychiatry 2008 7 14 doi l744-859X-7-l 4 This article is available from http content 7 l l4 2008 Kevrekidis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The Emotional Contagion Scale ECS is a self-report scale used to measure individual differences in susceptibility to converge towards the emotions expressed by others. The main aim of the present paper was to examine the psychometric properties of the Greek translation of the scale. Methods The Greek ECS was completed by 691 undergraduate students 312 males and 379 females . To investigate the factor structure of the ECS principal components analysis PCA was used. Results The results showed that a four-factor model was tenable. Regarding homogeneity the Greek ECS version showed acceptable results for the full scale a but not for all subscales. Gender differences were also identified concerning the susceptibility to emotional contagion between men and women. Women score significantly higher than men for all the different emotions described by the ECS love happiness sadness except .
