The QCAE: A Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy
By R. Reniers, Rhiannon Corcoran, R. Drake, Nick Shryane, Birgit A. Völlm. European psychiatry, 2009
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Empathy has been inconsistently defined and inadequately measured. This research aimed to produce a new and rigorously developed questionnaire. Exploratory (n 1= 640) and confirmatory (n 2= 318) factor analyses were employed to develop the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE). Principal components analysis revealed 5 factors (31 items). Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed this structure in an independent sample. The hypothesized 2-factor structure (cognitive and affective empathy) was tested and provided the best and most parsimonious fit to the data. Gender differences, convergent validity, and construct validity were examined. The QCAE is a valid tool for assessing cognitive and affective empathy.
Subfields: Health Information Management, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology
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- Dissociation between cognitive and affective empathy in youth with Asperger Syndrome (2015, background): “Affective empathy includes having an appropriate emotional response triggered by the other person’s emotion (Blair, 2005; Decety & Jackson, 2004; Reniers et al., 2011).”
- Resting-state EEG connectome topology and social norm processing in healthy young adults (2026, unknown): “Empathy was measured with the QCAE (Reniers et al. 2011; Di Girolamo et al. 2019 ), a 31-item self-report tool rated on a 4-point Likert scale.”
- APTNESS: Incorporating Appraisal Theory and Emotion Support Strategies for Empathetic Response Generation (2024, background): “In the field of sociology, empathy can be divided into two categories: cognitive empathy and affective empathy [21].”