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Regression analyses indicated that only exposure to video game violence was associated with (lower) empathy.
On average, boys who were high in cognitive empathy attracted 1.8 more female friendships in comparison to those with lower empathy.
This corroborates and extends previous research investigating empathy and alexithymia: Guttman and Laporte [41] reported lower empathy, measured with the interpersonal reactivity index – IRI [42], in alexithymic participants, defined by the TAS-20.
Both meditators' groups showed significantly lower empathy scores compared to controls only in the personal distress subscale, an index of emotional contagion by others' distress [ 23].
The lower empathy scores of those wanting to be indispensable also suggest a lack of insight, either into the motivations and actions of others, and perhaps also into the motivations of the participants themselves.
When predicting burnout in a linear regression model using empathic concern, perspective taking and their interaction as predictors, we observed that each of the predictors was uniquely associated with the outcome, with lower empathy scores predicting higher burnout (model adjusted for marital status).
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In contrast, when all channels were emotional, patients showed lower emotional empathy than healthy controls.
One paper using questionnaires found that children aged three to six, diagnosed with RAD, scored lower on empathy but higher on self-monitoring (regulating your behavior to "look good").
As it has been indicated with all the above findings, male students had much lower emotional empathy scores in this particular study.
Final year male students have scored statistically lower cognitive empathy [β = −3.9, 95%CI (6.49, −1.23)] compared with final year female students.
The higher the self-reported degree of alexithymia, the lower the empathy-related activity in this region when the partner received pain (autism spectrum condition: r = −0.506, P < 0.05; control, r = −0.536, P < 0.05).
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