Empathy and perspective taking.
18 catalogued instruments are currently grouped under this construct, across 4 domains: Emotional and social intelligence; Large-scale assessment; Personality: broadband models; Personality: dark traits and pathology.
Instruments are grouped by what each entry’s description says it measures, and the list may be incomplete. Read each entry for its exact coverage.
- IRI - Interpersonal Reactivity Index
Emotional and social intelligence. 28 (4 subscales x 7 items). open with attribution.
- TEQ - Toronto Empathy Questionnaire
Emotional and social intelligence. 16 items. open with attribution.
- BES - Basic Empathy Scale
Emotional and social intelligence. 20 (originally for adolescents); BES-A adult version. open with attribution.
- QCAE - Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy
Emotional and social intelligence. 31 items. open with attribution.
- HES - Hogan Empathy Scale
Emotional and social intelligence. 64 (true/false). open with attribution.
- JSE - Jefferson Scale of Empathy
Emotional and social intelligence. 20 items. copyrighted - author permission.
- SSIS - Social Skills Improvement System Rating Scales
Emotional and social intelligence. ~75-83 per form (teacher/parent/student forms vary). copyrighted - commercial.
- SSRS - Social Skills Rating System
Emotional and social intelligence. ~30-57 per form (teacher/parent/student forms vary). copyrighted - commercial.
- IERQ - Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
Emotional and social intelligence. 20 (4 factors x 5 items). open with attribution.
- MDEES - Multidimensional Emotional Empathy Scale
Emotional and social intelligence. 30 (6 subscales). open - non-commercial only.
- BEES - Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale
Emotional and social intelligence. 30 items. copyrighted - author permission.
- PSA - Prosocialness Scale for Adults
Emotional and social intelligence. 16 items. open with attribution.
- MET - Multifaceted Empathy Test
Emotional and social intelligence. ~40 photographs (versions differ; a 24-item short form is in use). copyrighted - author permission.
- GEM - Griffith Empathy Measure
Emotional and social intelligence. 23 items. open with attribution.
- SSES - OECD Survey on Social and Emotional Skills
Large-scale assessment. Student assessment covering 15 skills (approx 8 items per skill) plus student, parent, teacher and principal context questionnaires. mixed.
- CPI - California Psychological Inventory
Personality: broadband models. CPI 434 (434 items, ~18-20 folk scales); CPI 260 (260 items). copyrighted - commercial.
- CPS - Comrey Personality Scales
Personality: broadband models. 180 items. copyrighted - commercial.
- LPFS-SR - Level of Personality Functioning Scale - Self-Report
Personality: dark traits and pathology. 80 items. open with attribution.
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