Empathy and Autism: Establishing the Structure and Different Manifestations of Empathy in Autistic Individuals Using the Perth Empathy Scale.
Purpose: There is a common mischaracterisation that autistic individuals have reduced or absent empathy. Measurement issues may have influenced existing findings on the relationships between autism and empathy, and the structure of the empathy construct in autism remains unclear. Methods: The presen...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 55; no. 11; pp. 3941 - 3955 |
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Springer Nature
Nov2025
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