This chapter opens with a review of the conceptual issues regarding empathy and its implications in measuring empathic responses. The elaboration of an empathic index for school-aged children is then presented. The index stems from the pioneering work of Feshbach and Roe (1968), who developed a series of story-narratives, the Feshbach and Roe Affective Situation Test for Empathy, considered a prototype in this field of inquiry. After describing how the FASTE is adapted to Italian children, some empirical findings are discussed which explore the consistency of the instrument and the relationships between empathy and other indicators of children’s social behavior such as aggressiveness, prosocial behavior and emotional instability.
Designing a Method to Assess Empathy in Italian Children
ALBIERO, PAOLO;
2001
Abstract
This chapter opens with a review of the conceptual issues regarding empathy and its implications in measuring empathic responses. The elaboration of an empathic index for school-aged children is then presented. The index stems from the pioneering work of Feshbach and Roe (1968), who developed a series of story-narratives, the Feshbach and Roe Affective Situation Test for Empathy, considered a prototype in this field of inquiry. After describing how the FASTE is adapted to Italian children, some empirical findings are discussed which explore the consistency of the instrument and the relationships between empathy and other indicators of children’s social behavior such as aggressiveness, prosocial behavior and emotional instability.
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