About the Measure
| Domains | Emotional Intelligence (mixed and trait) |
| Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
| Subscales | Affective empathy; Cognitive empathy |
| Description | The instrument is made up of two subscales detecting two different components of empathetic responsiveness: the affective empathy subscale, measuring the emotional congruence with another person's emotions, and the cognitive empathy subscale, measuring ability to understand another person's emotions. |
| Example | My friends emotions don't affect me much |
| Link | Contact author at dj211@cam.ac.uk |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 20 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 9-18 |
| Cost single purchase | Available from a |
| Cost per child | Available from a |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | Yes |
| Cronbach's α | .77-.87 |
| Test retest | 3 weeks, r= [.54,.70] |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | 2-factor orthogo |
| CFA | 2-factor model GFI= .89 AGFI= .86 RMS= .06 |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | r= [-.20,-.17] with Toronto–Alexithymia scale; r= [.35,.53] with Interpersonal Reactivity Index; r= [-.10,.34] with Big Five Personality traits |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Jolliffe, D., & Farrington, D. P. (2006). Development and validation of the Basic Empathy Scale. Journal of Adolescence, 29(4), 589-611. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2005.08.010 D’Ambrosio, F., Olivier, M., Didon, D., & Besche, C. (2009). The basic empathy scale: A French validation of a measure of empathy in youth. Personality and Individual Differences, 46(2), 160-165. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2008.09.020 |