Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Children's Empathic Attitudes Questionnaire (CEAQ) is a self-report measure of empathic attitudes (modifiable knowledge structures that influence behavioural choice) towards peers, teachers, other children, animals, or other people.
Organization
Topic
Content
Grades
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade
Languages
English,
Spanish
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
16 items
Qualifications
Not indicated
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Corresponding author:
Jeanne Funk
Department of Psychology
University of Toledo, 2801 West Bancroft, Toledo, OH 43606-3390, United States
E-mail address:jeanne.funk@utoledo.edu
Open Access
Yes
Use in Research
Fisher, J. H., & Brown, J. L. (2018). A prospective, longitudinal examination of the influence of childhood home and school contexts on psychopathic characteristics in adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47(10), 2041-2059. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0861-2
Harrington, B., & O’Connell, M. (2016). Video games as virtual teachers: Prosocial video game use by children and adolescents from different socioeconomic groups is associated with increased empathy and prosocial behaviour. Computers in Human Behavior, 63, 650-658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.062
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Funk, J., Fox, C., Chan, M., & Curtiss, K. (2008). The development of the Children’s Empathic Attitudes Questionnaire using classical and Rasch analyses. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 29(3), 187–196.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2008.02.005
Vilte, L., Moreno, J. E., Castillo-Gualda, R., Lecuona, Ó., Garcia-Rubio, C., & Rodriguez-Carvajal, R. (2016). Psychometric properties of the Spanish validation of the children's empathic attitudes questionnaires (CEAQ). Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 23(3), 365-376. https://doi.org/10.4473/TPM23.3.7
