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Table 4 Empathy scores in priests and the controls

From: Distinct transcriptional and metabolic profiles associated with empathy in Buddhist priests: a pilot study

Psychology

Priests (n = 10)

Control (n = 10)

P value

r

Sharing positive emotions with others

22.0 (18.0–24.0)

18.0 (15.0–20.0)

0.018

− 0.521

Good feeling for others’ positive emotions

22.0 (19.8–25.0)

20.0 (17.8–21.0)

0.029

− 0.487

Sharing negative emotions with others

18.5 (17.8–20.3)

16.0 (13.8–19.0)

0.039

− 0.462

Sympathy for others’ negative emotions

20.5 (19.5–23.5)

20.0 (18.8–20.0)

0.118

− 0.368

Sensibility about others’ emotions

22.0 (20.0–25.0)

18.5 (17.0–23.0)

0.042

0.455

Perspective taking

20.5 (18.5–25.0)

19.0 (17.3–20.0)

0.106

0.368

  1. Values are expressed as median and interquartile range (25–75th percentile). A P value < 0.05 is statistically significant by Mann–Whitney U test. Cohen’s guidelines for the effect sizes (r) for Mann–Whitney U test are that a large effect is 0.5, a medium effect is 0.3, and small effect is 0.1 [28]