Assessing empathy in young children: Construction and validation of an Empathy Questionnaire (EmQue)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 362-367

  Rieffe, Carolien ^a   Ketelaar, Lizet ^a   Wiefferink, Carin H ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Foundation for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention emotions; Contagion; Emotion recognition; Emotion regulation; Emotion understanding; Infancy; Prosocial behavior; Theory of Mind; Toddler hood

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954214117     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.046     Document Type: Article

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