Keywords:
Affective empathy; anxiety; cognitive empathy; depression; empathy; negative emotions; positive emotions; psychometric properties; psychopathology; questionnaire
Abstract:
The Perth Empathy Scale (PES) is a 20-item self-report questionnaire that assesses people's ability to recognize emotions in others (i.e., cognitive empathy) and vicariously experience other's emotions (i.e., affective empathy), across positive and negative emotions. Originally developed in English, the aim of our study was to introduce the first Polish version of the PES and test its psychometric performance.