Chiaki Ishiguro, Toru Ishihara, Noriteru Morita
Extracurricular music and visual arts activities are related to academic performance improvement in school-aged children
NPJ science of learning
empathy crucial development socioemotional skills youth empathy development central understanding subtyping youth externalizing problems study explored first time psychometric properties measure empathy early childhood meec sample 652 italian children aged 6 8 years gender invariance meec scores associations measures empathy prosocial behavior childrens externalizing problems callousunemotional cu traits also evaluated results indicated modifications 5factor structure italian version meec scores fitted data invariant across gender results supported reliability validity meec total subscale scores practical implications results discussed