Table 1.

Demographic and psychometric variables for two groups of participants (mean ± SD)

	Scarcity group	Abundance group	Statistics (P)
Demographic variables
Age (years)	21.90 ± 2.23	21.07 ± 2.43	0.178
Female/male	13/16	15/15	–
Psychometric variables
Anxiety (STAI)
State anxiety	36.34 ± 7.59	39.17 ± 7.81	0.165
Trait anxiety	44.21 ± 9.08	47.10 ± 7.76	0.193
Empathy (QCAE)	86.93 ± 7.89	87.43 ± 7.68	0.805

Note: Statistics were obtained using independent-sample t-tests.