Development and empirical evaluation of a new empathy questionnaire for early adolescents

Mikac, Una; Buško, Vesna; Ivanović, Monika; Čikeš, Ana Babić

doi:10.21465/rp0024.0001

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“…Girls scored higher than boys, and children living in a small town scored higher than those living in a large town. Children aged 12 and 14 years scored lower than younger age groups (Mikac et al., 2017).…”

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“…Young people complete the 14 items using a 5-point Likert-type scale. Item examples include, “Sometimes I imagine how the children without parents feel,” and “I hate it when someone treads flowers or plucks plants.” Only the original paper investigated this measure’s psychometric properties (Mikac et al., 2017). It has a unidimensional factor structure, and very good internal consistency.…”

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“…The third category included more contemporary measures which made a distinction between cognitive and affective empathy in their measurement, but item construction did not explicitly reference current developmental theory or neuroscientific findings regarding empathy development in children. The measures in this category were the BES (Jolliffe & Farrington, 2006), the Children’s Empathic Attitudes Questionnaire (CEAQ; Funk et al., 2008), the Southampton Test of Empathy for Preschoolers (STEP; Howe et al., 2008), the Questionnaire to Assess Affective and Cognitive Empathy in Children (Zoll & Enz, 2010), the Kids’ Empathic Development Scale (KEDS; Reid et al., 2013), and the General Empathy Scale (GES; Mikac et al., 2017).…”

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“…GES (Mikac et al., 2017). The GES was intended as a cognitive and affective empathy questionnaire for early adolescents.…”

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“…Leana-Taşcılar et al (2018) found that KEDS Cognition and Total scores correlated positively with a Turkish child empathy measure. Reid et al (2013) GES (Mikac et al, 2017). The GES was intended as a cognitive and affective empathy questionnaire for early adolescents.…”

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Questionnaire Measures of Empathy in Children: A Scoping Review

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Children’s unique developmental and contextual needs make it challenging to measure empathy validly and reliably. This scoping review is the first to collate currently available information about self-report, other-report, and performance-based questionnaire measures of empathy for children aged up to 11 years. Following the guidelines for Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR; Tricco et al., 2018), a literature search using PsycINFO, Scopus, and Google Scholar identified 24 relevant measures of empathy in children, with publication years spanning 1958 to 2019. Questionnaires could broadly be classified into four groups, according to the extent to which they were developed with children’s developmental needs and contexts in mind, and were based on contemporary theory and research findings. There was a distinction between performance-based measures, which elicited children’s empathy-related responses to novel content and therefore assessed situational state empathy, and self- and other-report measures, which rated children’s general empathic tendencies and thus assessed dispositional trait empathy. Results highlighted the importance of researchers having clarity on their definition of empathy and choosing measures consistent with this, and the merit of utilizing a multimodal assessment approach.

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“…GES (Mikac et al., 2017). The GES was intended as a cognitive and affective empathy questionnaire for early adolescents.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Parents’ attitudes towards distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

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2022

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In this article we consider the applicability of distance education on the elementary level from parents’ perspectives and present the limitations stemming from the degree of support that students in elementary education need from their parents. The dilemmas regarding the possible levels of students’ development of independence and self-orientation, and the parents’ roles are highlighted. We believe that due to these limitations, distance learning has some of the characteristics of home-schooling. The subject of the research in the empirical part of this study focused on parents’ attitudes. Parental attitudes, based on a previously established multi-factor model, become clear from the parents’ experiences (Kolak, Markić & Horvat, 2020) where factors regarding the demands of teaching and the competence of parents as substitute teachers, were separated. Parents’ characteristics (e.g., gender, age, educational status and involvement) were found to influence their attitudes. The results of the research indicate the importance of parents in distance learning during the pandemic which adds a new and more significant role in the educational process of their children.

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Application of Active Learning Strategies with a Focus on Inquiry-Based Learning – Teachers' Self-Assessment

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Inquiry-based learning is an active, student-oriented process based on the student's experience and curiosity. With the teacher's help, the student investigates a specific problem and through further individual work, comes to knowledge. The conducted research aimed to examine the self-assessment of classroom teachers about Inquiry-based learning, their competencies, and education for its application, and to examine the teachers' perception of the benefits and detriments. The results of the research showed that the surveyed teachers are fully aware of the benefits of applying Inquiry-based learning, but have very little or no experience in working with this method. One of the biggest reasons is the lack of education for the application of the mentioned method. The demands placed on teachers are often out of proportion to the conditions in which they work.

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Development and empirical evaluation of a new empathy questionnaire for early adolescents

Cited by 4 publications

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Questionnaire Measures of Empathy in Children: A Scoping Review

Questionnaire Measures of Empathy in Children: A Scoping Review

Parents’ attitudes towards distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

Application of Active Learning Strategies with a Focus on Inquiry-Based Learning – Teachers' Self-Assessment

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