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@article{Anastcio2016ThePV, title={The Portuguese version of the Basic Empathy Scale (BES): Dimensionality and measurement invariance in a community adolescent sample}, author={Susana Anast{\'a}cio and Paula Vagos and Luiza Nobre-Lima and Daniel Rijo and Darrick Jolliffe}, journal={European Journal of Developmental Psychology}, year={2016}, volume={13}, pages={614 - 623}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:147008133}}
  • Susana Anastácio, P. Vagos, D. Jolliffe
  • Published 4 April 2016
  • Psychology
  • European Journal of Developmental Psychology

Abstract Empathy is the heightened ability to cognitively perceive and/or affectively share the emotions of others, which has been consistently associated with desirable social interactions. This paper aimed to test the bi-factorial structure of a Portuguese version of the Basic Empathy Scale and examine its variation by gender and age using a large community sample (n = 1029) of adolescents. The two-factor model, originally developed and supported by other cross-cultural validations, presented…

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