The Personality Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire

About the Laboratory: • site home • people in the lab • list of laboratory publications • selected reprints

Overview of Selected Theoretical Work: personality as a scientific discipline • the Systems Framework for personality • personal intelligence • emotional intelligence •ethical commentary on the personality of public figures

Psychological Measures and Procedures: scales of mood,• mood-congruent judgment,• empathy, • meta-experience of mood, • personal intelligence • emotional intelligence • intellectual experience • and experimental procedures

Other Resources: links to documents, video and websites on personality • UNH Department of Psychology (New Window)

Multidimesional Emotional Empathy Scale (MU-EMS)

Contents

Obtaining the scale
Permission for free use
Report on the scale

Obtaining the Scale

This empathy scale, the Measure of Emotional Empathy, was used in Mayer, Caruso, & Salovey, 1999, and is reprinted here (PDF opens in new window).

The scale measures five related emotionally-relevant forms of empathy including:

emotional suffering

positive sharing

crying

emotional attention

feeling for others

emotional contagion

and a total scale score.

Permission for Free Use

We hereby give permission for its free use here.

Unpublished Report on the Scale

This accompanying report of the scale examines some of the psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Emotional Empathy Scale (MU-EMS). The appendix provides scoring information.