The Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy: Development, validation, and reliability

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 221-234

  Wang, Yu Wei ^a   Davidson, M Meghan ^a   Yakushko, Oksana F ^a   Savoy, Holly Bielstein ^a   Tan, Jeffrey A ^a   Bleier, Joseph K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMPATHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCALE OF ETHNOCULTURAL EMPATHY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037950392     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.50.2.221     Document Type: Review

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