The Kids' Empathic Development Scale (<scp>KEDS</scp>): A multi‐dimensional measure of empathy in primary school‐aged children

Reid, Corinne; Davis, Helen; Horlin, Chiara; Anderson, Mike; Baughman, Natalie; Campbell, Catherine

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“…To date, four questionnaires have been used to investigate the processes that subtend empathy in middle childhood (Bryant, 1982;Garton & Gringart, 2005;Litvack-Miller, McDouglas, & Romney, 1997;Reid et al, 2013). Garton and Gringart's (2005) questionnaire was motivated by the study of the role of empathy in the efficiency of collaborative problem solving in school education.…”

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“…Garton and Gringart's (2005) questionnaire was motivated by the study of the role of empathy in the efficiency of collaborative problem solving in school education. The other authors focused on assessing the link between empathy and prosocial behavior in either typical (Bryant, 1982;Litvack-Miller et al, 1997) or atypical (Reid et al, 2013) children.…”

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“…The third questionnaire, designed for use with children aged 6-12 years, is the Index of Empathy (IE; Bryant, 1982), an adaptation of the Questionnaire Measure of Emotional Empathy (QMEE; Mehrabian & Epstein, 1972), which treats emotional empathy as a vicarious emotional response to the emotion of another person. Finally, Reid and colleagues recently developed the Kids' Empathic Development Scale (KEDS; Reid et al, 2013). The KEDS measures empathy in 7-to 11-year-olds exposed to emotional stories, and considers three factors: an affective component relating to emotional inference, that is, the ability of children to take the place of another person and then to imagine what that person is feeling on the basis of situational and non-emotional cues; a cognitive component, referring to the explanations or justifications that children produce to explain their emotional inference; and a behavioral component that concerns adaptive behaviors in relation to the emotional scenario.…”

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The Basic Empathy Scale adapted to French middle childhood: Structure and development of empathy

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We adapted the adult French version of the Basic Empathy Scale to French children aged 6-11 years, in order to probe the factorial structure underlying empathy. A total of 410 children (189 girls and 221 boys) were instructed to fill out the resulting Basic Empathy Scale in Children (BES-C). Results showed that, as in adulthood, the three-factor model of empathy (i.e., emotional contagion, cognitive empathy, and emotional disconnection) was more relevant than the oneand two-factor ones. This means that as early as 6 years of age, children's responses should reflect the same organization of the three components of empathy as those of adults. In line with the literature, cognitive empathy increased and emotional disconnection decreased in middle childhood, while emotional contagion remained stable. Moreover, girls exhibited greater emotional contagion than boys, with the reverse pattern being observed for emotional disconnection. No sex difference was found regarding cognitive empathy.

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“…According to Bensalah et al (2016) to date, four questionnaires have been used to assess empathy in middle childhood (Bryant, 1982; Litvack-Miller et al, 1997; Garton and Gringart, 2005; Reid et al, 2013). Garton and Gringart's (2005) questionnaire studies the role of empathy in collaborative problem solving in school education.…”

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“…The Index of Empathy (Bryant, 1982) for children aged 6–12 years only assess emotional empathy as a vicarious emotional response to the emotion of another person. Reid and colleagues developed the Kids' Empathic Development Scale (Reid et al, 2013). This scale assesses empathy in 7–11 year-olds that have to answer to emotional stories.…”

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Construct Validity and Reliability of a New Spanish Empathy Questionnaire for Children and Early Adolescents

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Empathy is a basic socio-emotional process of human development that involves the ability to perceive, share, and understand the emotional states of others. This process is essential to successful social functioning. However, despite its significance, empathy has been difficult to define and measure, particularly when incorporating both its emotional and cognitive aspects. The purpose of this study was to develop an Empathy Questionnaire for children aged 9–12 years based on a model of social cognitive neuroscience and to analyze its construct validity and reliability. This questionnaire aimed to integrate the following aspects: emotional contagion, self-other awareness, perspective-taking, emotional regulation, and empathic action. Three studies were conducted. Study 1 evaluated the discriminative power of the items and studied the underlying structure of the instrument using exploratory factor analysis. In Study 2, confirmatory factor analysis was performed to test the model obtained. Finally, the goal of Study 3 was to analyze the convergent and discriminant validity of the questionnaire and the internal consistency of its dimensions. The final version of the instrument contained 15 items that operationalized the previously listed dimensions. The results of the 3 studies indicated that the questionnaire had good validity and reliability. This study has important implications for research and clinical practice. Given its simplicity and brevity, this new self-report scale may work well as a screening method to evaluate the key psychological issues underlying numerous child behaviors that predict the success or failure of social relationships, individual quality of life, and mental well-being.

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The Kids' Empathic Development Scale (KEDS): A multi‐dimensional measure of empathy in primary school‐aged children

Abstract: (2012) The Kids' Empathic Development Scale (KEDS): A multi-dimensional measure of empathy in primary school-aged children.

Cited by 101 publications

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The Basic Empathy Scale adapted to French middle childhood: Structure and development of empathy

The Basic Empathy Scale adapted to French middle childhood: Structure and development of empathy

Construct Validity and Reliability of a New Spanish Empathy Questionnaire for Children and Early Adolescents

Empathy, Personality Correlates of

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