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Environmental EmpathyEES-EMP✓ Validated
Environmental Empathy Scale
Tam · 2013
Overview
Measures the capacity to empathize with the natural environment, including the ability to take the perspective of ecosystems and non-human species, feel concern for environmental suffering, and experience emotional responses to environmental degradation. Extends the concept of empathy beyond human-to-human interactions to human–nature relationships.
Measure Details
Number of Items14 items
Response Scale5-point Likert (1 = Strongly Disagree, 5 = Strongly Agree)
Author(s)Tam
Year Published2013
Internal Reliabilityα = .86
DomainEnvironmental Empathy
Citation
Tam, K.-P. (2013). Concepts and measures related to connection to nature: Similarities and differences. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 34, 64–78.
Keywords
environmental empathyperspective-takingecosystemsnon-humanconcernemotionalnature
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At a Glance
Items14
Year2013
Reliabilityα = .86