About the Measure
| Domains | Emotional Intelligence (mixed and trait), Social and Emotional Competence |
| Key stages | |
| Subscales | Emotion contagion; Attention to others’ feelings; Prosocial actions |
| Description | The Empathy Questionnaire (EmQue) is a 20 item questionnaire filled out by parents, indicating the degree of empathy that their child (between 1 – 6 years old) showed over the last two months on a three-point-scale. |
| Example | When another child cries, my child gets upset too |
| Link | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carin_Wiefferink/publication/229105774_Assessing_empathy_in_young_children_Construction_and_validation_of_an_Empathy_Questionnaire_EmQue/links/00463531ebc152c2f8000000.pdf |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 20 |
| Format | Likert |
| Respondent | Parent |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 1-5 |
| Cost single purchase | Free |
| Cost per child | Free |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | No |
| Cronbach's α | .58-.80 |
| Test retest | Not reported |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | 3-factor oblique |
| CFA | Not reported |
| Criterion validity | r= [.23,.67] with Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire; r= [-.39,-.41] with empathy task |
| Construct validity | Not reported |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Rieffe, C., Ketelaar, L., & Wiefferink, C. H. (2010). Assessing empathy in young children: Construction and validation of an Empathy Questionnaire (EmQue). Personality and Individual Differences, 49(5), 362-367. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.046 |