. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Apr 17.

Published in final edited form as: Emotion. 2008 Dec;8(6):753–765. doi: 10.1037/a0014123

Table 6.

Descriptive Statistics for Positive and Negative Social Interactions and Their Correlations With Empathy

					Descriptive statistics

	Correlations between empathy in 2004 and ….				Positive interactions		Negative interactions

	Positive interactions		Negative interactions		M	SD	M	SD
Number of interactions	.02	(.00)	−.08	(−.12)	13.8	8.0	1.7	2.7
Self-feeling	.25^**	(.28^**)	.03	(.05)	4.2	0.4	2.8	1.0
Other-feeling	.23^*	(.25^**)	−.07	(−.04)	4.1	0.5	2.4	0.9
Expressed negativity	−.01	(−.05)	.15	(.13)	1.4	0.4	2.9	1.0
Expressed positivity	.25^**	(.27^**)	−.03	(−.01)	3.6	0.6	2.0	0.9
Meaningful	.22^*	(.26^**)	.29^*	(.30^*)	3.5	0.8	2.9	0.9

Note. Values in parentheses are partial correlations controlled for participants’ age.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01