Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale.

BEES

What it measures

vicarious emotional (affective) empathy - the tendency to feel the emotions of others; a single balanced (positively and negatively keyed) dimension

Length and format

30 items. 9-point agreement (-4 to +4, balanced keying); summed total (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

several incl. ES, IT, ZH; used internationally in empathy research

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Mehrabian, A. (2000). Manual for the Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale (BEES). Monterey, CA: Alta Mesa (available from the author).