Poresky RH. The Young Children's Empathy Measure: reliability, validity and effects of companion animal bonding.
Psychol Rep 1990;
66:931-6. [PMID:
2377714 DOI:
10.2466/pr0.1990.66.3.931]
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Abstract
The Young Children's Empathy Measure is a brief measure of young children's cognitive and affective perspective taking developed to assess preschool children's empathy. The Cronbach alpha coefficient of internal reliability for the empathy score was acceptable and interrater reliability across four rates was very high. The children's empathy scores were correlated with their ages and social development, but not with their IQs. Empathy toward children was correlated with empathy for pets, and children with a strong pet bond had higher scores on empathy for children than young children without pets.
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