Basic Empathy Scale.
BES
- What it measures
- Empathy with a dual-component structure: cognitive empathy and affective empathy
- Length and format
- 20 (originally for adolescents); BES-A adult version. 5-pt Likert (strongly disagree - strongly agree) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages (ES, FR, DE, IT, PT, ZH, Greek, Turkish, etc.); widely used in youth and developmental 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
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Jolliffe, D., & Farrington, D. P. (2006). Development and validation of the Basic Empathy Scale. Journal of Adolescence, 29(4), 589-611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2005.08.010
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