Toronto Empathy Questionnaire.
TEQ
- What it measures
- Empathy as a primarily emotional/affective process (a unidimensional total empathy score, factor-derived from multiple empathy measures)
- Length and format
- 16 items. 5-pt frequency (never - always) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages (ES, IT, PT, ZH, Turkish, Persian, Greek, etc.); widely adapted internationally
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Spreng, R. N., et al. (2009). The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91(1), 62-71. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2775495/
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