Table 1
Means, standard deviations, maximum scores, minimum scores, intercorrelations, and coefficient alphas for overall empathy, subscales, and sentence length.
| Overall empathy (OE) | Perspective taking (PT) | Empathic concern (EC) | Fantasy (FS) | Personal distress (PD) | Sentence length (SL) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | 97.63a (11.49) | 26.24b (3.76) | 27.18b (3.88) | 24.23b (5.10) | 19.98b (4.40) | 4.55c (2.43) |
| Maximum | 125 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 32 | 10 |
| Minimum | 61 | 13 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 1 |
| OE | .84 | .70** | .96** | .95** | .71** | -.15* |
| PT | .54** | .70 | .54** | .32** | -.11 | -.22** |
| EC | .77** | .40** | .77 | .59** | .34** | -.22** |
| FS | .78** | .24** | .46** | .80 | .36** | -.06 |
| PD | .57** | -.08 | .26** | .28** | .76 | .01 |
| SL | -.14* | -.18** | -.19** | -.05 | .01 | 1.00 |
[i] Note. Intercorrelations are presented below the diagonal, and attenuation corrected intercorrelations are presented above the diagonal. Coefficient alphas are presented in boldface along the diagonal.
aPossible range, 28–140, bPossible range, 7–35, cPossible range, 1–10. *p < .05, **p < .01.