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SUBMITTER: Overgaauw S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5447078 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Overgaauw Sandy S Rieffe Carolien C Broekhof Evelien E Crone Eveline A EA Güroğlu Berna B
Frontiers in psychology 20170529
Empathy plays a crucial role in healthy social functioning and in maintaining positive social relationships. In this study, 1250 children and adolescents (10-15 year olds) completed the newly developed Empathy Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (EmQue-CA) that was tested on reliability, construct validity, convergent validity, and concurrent validity. The EmQue-CA aims to assess empathy using the following scales: <i>affective empathy, cognitive empathy</i>, and <i>intention to comfort</ ...[more]