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The Young Children's Empathy Measure: Reliability, Validity and Effects of Companion Animal Bonding
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Abstract
<p class="first" id="d1356038e51">The Young Children's Empathy Measure is a brief
measure of young children's cognitive
and affective perspective taking developed to assess preschool children's empathy.
The Cronbach alpha coefficient of internal reliability for the empathy score was acceptable
and interrater reliability across four rates was very high. The children's empathy
scores were correlated with their ages and social development, but not with their
IQs. Empathy toward children was correlated with empathy for pets, and children with
a strong pet bond had higher scores on empathy for children than young children without
pets.
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