Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
This instrument was designed to measure and differentiate empathy and sympathy in adolescents and balance its emphasis on affective and cognitive empathy. The Adolescent Measure of Empathy and Sympathy (AMES), (1) balances the emphasis on affective empathy and cognitive empathy, (2) uses unambiguous wording and (3) distinguishes between empathy and sympathy. The three subscores are affective empathy, cognitive empathy, and sympathy.
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Social Awareness ; Empathy ; Affective Empathy ; Cognitive Empathy ; Sympathy
Languages
English,
Chinese
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
12 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Dr. Helen Vossen
Open Access
Yes
Setting
Classroom
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Murphy, B. A., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2019). Are self-report cognitive empathy ratings valid proxies for cognitive empathy ability? Negligible meta-analytic relations with behavioral task performance. Psychological Assessment, 31(8), 1062. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pas0000732
Bloom, Z. D., & Lambie, G. W. (2020). The Adolescent Measure of Empathy and Sympathy in a sample of emerging adults. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 53(2), 89-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2019.1667243
Li, H., Tan, J. W., & Ying, P. X. (2019). Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Adolescent Measure of Empathy and Sympathy. Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 47(6), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.8007
Vossen, H.G.M., Piotrowski, J.T., Valkenburg, P.M. (2015). Development and validation of the Adolescent Measure of Empathy and Sympathy (AMES). Personality and Individual Differences, 74, 66-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.040
