Table 3.

Construct consistencies of the three scales of the Empathy Questionnaire for children and adolescents (EmQue-CA).

	Number of items	N	Cronbach’s Alpha	Inter-item correlation	Mean (SD) boys	Mean (SD) girls
EmQue-CA
Affective empathy∗∗∗	6	1250	0.70	0.28	1.60 (0.36)	2.04 (0.40)
Cognitive empathy∗∗∗	3	1250	0.70	0.44	2.17 (0.50)	2.36 (0.49)
Intention to comfort∗∗∗	5	1250	0.74	0.36	2.45 (0.44)	2.66 (0.36)
IRI
Affective empathy∗∗∗	6	126	0.74	0.33	1.87 (0.74)	2.53 (0.57)
Cognitive empathy∗∗∗	6	1098	0.69	0.27	2.43 (0.63)	2.61 (0.63)
EAQ
Differentiating emotions	7	117	0.75	0.30	2.39 (0.45)	2.34 (0.41)
Bodily awareness of emotions∗∗	5	117	0.61	0.24	1.93 (0.44)	1.68 (0.42)
Attending to others’ emotions∗∗∗	5	117	0.59	0.22	2.37 (0.40)	2.62 (0.33)
Friendship quality∗∗∗	17	862	0.90	0.37	3.53 (0.63)	4.05 (0.59)
Bullying∗∗∗	6	907	0.80	0.42	0.94 (0.58)	0.66 (0.49)

Significant gender differences are indicated with an asterisk: ^∗p < 0.05, ^∗∗p < 0.01, ^∗∗∗p < 0.001.