Empathy in Preschool Children: The Development of the Southampton Test of Empathy for Preschoolers (STEP)

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 305-309

  Howe, Alexandra ^a   Pit ten Cate, Ineke M ^a   Brown, Antony ^a   Hadwin, Julie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

empathy; measurement; preschoolers; reliability; validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMPATHY; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 54949154557     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012763     Document Type: Article

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