The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Scale Development and Initial Validation of a Factor-Analytic Solution to Multiple Empathy Measures

Nathan Spreng, R.; C. McKinnon, Margaret; A. Mar, Raymond; Levine, Brian

doi:10.1080/00223890802484381

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The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Scale Development and Initial Validation of a Factor-Analytic Solution to Multiple Empathy Measures

Published in Journal of Personality Assessment • Dec 11, 2008

Authors:

R. Nathan Spreng

Margaret C. McKinnon

Raymond A. Mar

Abstract

To formulate a parsimonious tool to assess empathy, we used factor analysis on a combination of self-report measures to examine consensus and developed a brief self-report measure of this common factor. The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ) represents empathy as a primarily emotional process. In 3...

Subject

Empathy

Psychology

Internal consistency

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