Assessment Report
Toronto Empathy Questionnaire — Sample Profile
Your Scores
Each bar shows where your responses fall on the 5-point scale, expressed as a percentage of the possible range.
Empathy sits in the average range (50%) — a balanced, middle-of-the-scale standing.
Well below average — 1st percentile compared with the reference sample (N = 116). 90% confidence range: 1st–6th percentile.
Where you fall relative to the population — a normative comparison, not a diagnostic indicator.
What this means
Your overall standing on Empathy is in the average range (50%). This is a within-person self-reflection summary, not a clinical diagnosis.
About This Measure
A 16-item self-report measure of cognitive and affective empathy, assessing the capacity to recognize and share the emotional states of others.
Source & attribution: Spreng, R.N., McKinnon, M.C., Mar, R.A., & Levine, B. (2009). The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Scale development and initial validation of a factor-analytic solution to multiple empathy measures. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91(1), 62–71.