Validación del “Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ)” en una Muestra Uruguaya

Marcela Carballo; Cesar Daniel Costa-Ball; Martín Bidegain; José Álvarez

doi:10.21865/RIDEP69.3.09

Validación del “Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ)” en una Muestra Uruguaya

Translated title of the contribution: Validation of the “Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ)” in a Uruguayan Sample

Marcela Carballo, Cesar Daniel Costa-Ball, Martín Bidegain, José Álvarez

Universidad Católica del Uruguay

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Assessing empathy has been carried out through different self-report scales that study the affective or cognitive aspects of the construct. Despite the current acceptance of multidimensional scales, it has been suggested that it is possible to assess an underlying general dimension, the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ), a technique developed for this purpose. This study analyzed the psychometric properties of the TEQ in a sample of 200 Uruguayan adults (100 women, 100 men). The exploratory factor analysis showed a good fit for the one-dimensional model. By eliminating 10 items, essential unidimensionality is reached. The results suggest that the Spanish version of the TEQ is a valid scale for the study population. A revision of the formulation of the inverted ítems and the validity of the reduced 6-ítem version is suggested.

Translated title of the contribution	Validation of the “Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ)” in a Uruguayan Sample
Original language	Spanish
Pages (from-to)	101-114
Number of pages	14
Journal	Revista Iberoamericana de Diagnostico y Evaluacion Psicologica
Volume	69
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21865/RIDEP69.3.09
State	Published - 2023

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