Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy.
QCAE
- What it measures
- Empathy with 5 subscales: Perspective Taking + Online Simulation (= Cognitive empathy); Emotion Contagion, Proximal Responsivity, Peripheral Responsivity (= Affective empathy)
- Length and format
- 31 items. 4-pt Likert (strongly agree - strongly disagree) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Multiple languages (ES, FR, DE, IT, ZH, Dutch, etc.); cross-cultural applicability supported
- 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
- Reniers, R. L. E. P., et al. (2011). The QCAE: A questionnaire of cognitive and affective empathy. Journal of Personality Assessment, 93(1), 84-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2010.528484
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