37,660 responses from 1,883 respondents to 20 items.
One of 5 tables from the same source; this one measures Empathy (cognitive and affective). The others are listed under Related tables.
| Description | Empathy, cognitive (11) and affective (9); 20 items, 1-5 (strongly disagree-strongly agree); 1883 junior high school students from 40 schools in Chengdu, China (paper-and-pencil survey); covariates: cov_gender, cov_school_location, cov_grade, cov_only_child. |
|---|---|
| Reference | Liu, J., Guo, H., Gai, Y., & Luo, K. (2026). Data for: Competitive Achievement Goals and Social Alienation in Chinese Junior High School Students: Evidence from PLS-SEM and fsQCA [Data set]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32599122.v1 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Source data | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_for_Competitive_Achievement_Goals_and_Social_Alienation_in_Chinese_Junior_High_School_Students_Evidence_from_PLS-SEM_and_fsQCA/32599122 |
These notes describe the source data, which the IRW reproduces as released. All notes are listed on the Data Notes page.
| Responses | 37,660 |
|---|---|
| Respondents | 1,883 |
| Items | 20 |
| Response categories | 5 |
| Responses per respondent | 20 |
| Responses per item | 1,883 |
| Density | 1 |
| Longitudinal | FALSE |
| age range | Child (<18y) |
|---|---|
| child age (for child-focused studies) | Adolescent (12-18y) |
| sample | Educational, General/non-specific |
| construct type | Personality |
| measurement tool | Survey/questionnaire |
| item format | Likert Scale/selected response |
| primary language(s) | chi |
| construct name | Empathy (cognitive and affective) |
This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, liu_2026.R. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.
| Column | What it is | Source column |
|---|---|---|
| IRW standard columns | ||
id | IRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task). | made in the build script |
item | IRW standard Item identifier. | not traced |
resp | IRW standard Response value. | not traced |
| Respondent covariates | ||
cov_gender | Covariate | made in the build script |
cov_grade | Covariate | not traced |
cov_only_child | Covariate | not traced |
cov_school_location | Covariate | not traced |
What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the source’s codebook, 65349858.
Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):
# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("liu_2026_empathy")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("liu_2026_empathy")
@misc{https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32599122.v1,
doi = {10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.32599122.V1},
url = {https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_for_Competitive_Achievement_Goals_and_Social_Alienation_in_Chinese_Junior_High_School_Students_Evidence_from_PLS-SEM_and_fsQCA/32599122/1},
author = {Liu, Jie and Guo, Hongxia and Gai, Yihe and Luo, Kangrong},
keywords = {Educational psychology, Social psychology},
title = {Data for: Competitive Achievement Goals and Social Alienation in Chinese Junior High School Students: Evidence from PLS-SEM and fsQCA},
publisher = {figshare},
year = {2026},
copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
}
| IRW version | v584 |
|---|---|
| Redivis dataset | item_response_warehouse_5 v8.5 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/41xy-5k56 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v8.5 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v44.0 |