The development of the Children's Empathic Attitudes Questionnaire using classical and Rasch analyses

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 187-196

  Funk, Jeanne ^a   Fox, Christine ^a   Chan, Margaret ^a   Curtiss, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Item Response Theory; Measure development; Rasch analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649136884     PISSN: 01933973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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