Instruments -

Lab-PSE designs and validates research instruments to study different competences in the area of social understanding and emotional understanding.

Empathy

EmQue-I13

The questionnaire, that can be filled in by parents, measures the empathy (emotional contagion, attention to others’ feelings, prosocial actions) in children between 18 and 36 months old.

Download: EmQue-I13

Find out more: Grazzani, I., Ornaghi, V., Pepe, A., Brazzelli, E., & Rieffe, C. (2017). The Italian version of the Empathy Questionnaire for 18-to 36-months-old children: psychometric properties and measurement invariance across gender of the EmQue-I13. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 14(1), 118-126.

Prosocial behaviours

Child Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire

The questionnaire, which can be filled in by parents, measures prosocial behaviours (help, sharing, comfort) in the first 3 years.

Download: CPBQ

Find out more: Brazzelli, E., Farina, E., Grazzani, I., & Pepe, A. (in press). La misura dei comportamenti prosociali nella prima infanzia: uno studio di validazione del CPBQ. Psicologia Clinica dello Sviluppo.

Test to complete stories about prosocial orientation

The instruments, which has a female and a male version, is used to evauate the prosocial orientation of children in preschool age.

Download: versione femminile – versione maschile

Find out more:

Grazzani, I., Ornaghi, V. (2015). La «Prova di completamento di storie sull’orientamento prosociale»: un’esperienza per potenziare la disposizione ai comportamenti di aiuto. Psicologia clinica dello sviluppo, 19(2), 253-258.

Ornaghi, V., Grazzani, I., Cherubin, E., Conte, E., & Piralli, F. (2015). ‘Let’s Talk about Emotions!’. The Effect of Conversational Training on Preschoolers’ Emotion Comprehension and Prosocial Orientation. Social Development, 24(1), 166-183.

Prosocial behavior Observation Grid

The grid has been developed to identify prosocial behaviours of help, sharing and conforting in children between 2 and 5 years old.

Download: Prosocial Behavior Observation Grid

Find out more: Conte, E., Grazzani, I., & Pepe, A. (2018). Social Cognition, Language, and Prosocial Behaviors: A Multitrait Mixed-Methods Study in Early Childhood. Early Education and Development, 29:6, 814-830. DOI: 10.1080/10409289.2018.1475820

Theory of mind

Test to understand and explain false belief

The instruments measures the understanding and the explanation of false belief in preschool children.

Download: Batteria di comprensione e spiegazione della falsa credenza

Find out more: Ornaghi, V., Grazzani, I., Cherubin, E., Conte, E., & Piralli, F. (2015). ‘Let’s Talk about Emotions!’. The Effect of Conversational Training on Preschoolers’ Emotion Comprehension and Prosocial Orientation. Social Development, 24(1), 166-183.

True belief test

The instruments measures the understanding of true belief in children between 22 and 46 months.

Download: True belief test

To find out more on the test: Wellman, H. M. (1991). “From desires to beliefs: acquisition of a theory of mind”, in A. Withen (ed.), Natural theories of mind. Evolution, development and simulation of everyday mindreading. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.

To find out more on the theoretical model: Wellman, H. M. (2014). Making minds. How Theory of mind develops. Oxford University Press, New York.

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