Introduction. The Empathy Quotient (EQ) is a self-report questionnaire that was developed to
measure the cognitive, affective, and behavioural aspects of empathy. We evaluated its …

Objective: The Empathy Quotient (EQ) is a self-report that was developed to measure the
cognitive and affective aspects of empathy. We further evaluated its validity in 2 studies …

Introduction. Research on empathy has a long tradition in clinical research, as deficits in
empathy have been found in many mental disorders. Over decades, a large amount of …

The most recent conceptualizations of empathy recognize affective empathy as distinct from
cognitive empathy. Consequently, instruments that assess these 2 types of empathy have …

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 …

This research aimed to validate a simplified Chinese version of the Empathy Quotient (EQ;
60 items) for use with Mainland Chinese people. The original English version of the EQ was …

Background. Empathy plays a key role in social understanding, but its empirical
measurement has proved difficult. The Empathy Quotient (EQ) is a self-report scale …

Empathy is an essential part of normal social functioning, yet there are precious few
instruments for measuring individual differences in this domain. In this article we review …

This study assessed the dimensionality of the Empathy Quotient (EQ) using two statistical
approaches: Rasch and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). Participants included N= 658 …

Empathy is essential for social functioning and is relevant to a host of clinical conditions.
This COSMIN review evaluated the empirical support for empathy self-report measures used …