Emotional Empathy Scale (EES)

The Emotional Empathy Scale (EMQ) yields one total score.

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Item Coding

The EES consists of 33 items that are rated on a 9-point Likert scale as follows:

-4	-3	-2	-1	0	1	2	3	4
Very Strong Disagreement				Neutral	Very Strong Agreement

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Scales

The EES yields 1 total score. Scale scores are calculated as the sum of respective items. Underlined/bold items are reverse scored.

Scale Name (Abbr.)	Description	Item loadings
EES Total Score (EES_TOT)		1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33

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Resource Files

• Questionnaire
• CIDA Item file
• CIDA Scoring file
• SPSS Syntax Scoring File
  

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References

• Mehrabian, A. & Epstein, N. (1972). A measure of emotional empathy.  Journal of Personality, 40, 525-543.

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Created by: Allison Grant

Updated 2-11-08