01833nas a2200217   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001300118653001200131653002400143653002900167100002200196700002100218700002000239245011400259300001200373490000700385520119500392022001401587020001401601       2010                            d  c06/2010bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10adistress10aEmpathy10ainterpersonal guilt10ainterpersonal reactivity1 aItziar Etxebarria1 aAitziber Pascual1 aSusana Conejero00aCan guilt be considered an interpersonal sensitivity index? Interpersonal reactivity and interpersonal guilt?  a201-2140 v163 aCan guilt be considered an interpersonal sensitivity index? To answer this question, the study analyzed the relationship between interpersonal guilt and perspective taking and empathic concern. Furthermore, it analyzed the relationship between interpersonal guilt and another interpersonal reactivity variable: personal distress. Adolescents, young people and adults of both sexes answered a test expressly designed to measure interpersonal guilt as well as the IRI (Davis, 1980). Perspective taking showed a significant correlation with empathic concern in both sexes and the three age groups, and empathic concern showed predictive power on interpersonal guilt in both sexes and two age groups. These results support Hoffman s theory of interpersonal guilt (2000) and enable us to consider guilt, up to a certain point, as an interpersonal sensitivity index. Furthermore, personal distress showed predictive power on interpersonal guilt in both sexes and the three age groups. This result suggests that, in this kind of guilt, together with empathy, an anxious component is also activated, which is congruent with the bi-factorial model of guilt proposed by Etxebarria and Apodaca (2008).  a1134-7937  a2174-0437