Table 4. Study 2: Hierarchical regression analyses predicting empathy T3.
| Empathy T2 | Empathy T3 | |||||
| Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | |
| Control variables | ||||||
| Age | −.07 | −.08 | −.07 | −.04 | −.04 | −.02 |
| Gender | −.05 | −.04 | −.04 | .05 | .05 | .07 |
| Narrative Experience | .05 | .05 | .05 | .01 | .00 | −.01 |
| Empathy T1 | .89*** | .88*** | .88*** | .81*** | .81*** | .82*** |
| Positive Affect | .06 | .02 | .02 | .09 | .06 | .09 |
| Negative Affect | .07 | .08 | .07 | .12 | .14* | .12 |
| Narrative Understanding | .12 | .11 | .11 | .05 | .05 | .04 |
| Attentional Focus | −.10 | −.10 | −.10 | −.14 | −.12 | −.12 |
| Independent variables | ||||||
| Condition | −.08 | −.07 | −.06 | −.03 | ||
| Emotional Transportation | .06 | .03 | −.03 | −.17 | ||
| Interaction Effect | ||||||
| Emotional Transportation * Condition | .04 | .18* | ||||
| F | 51.56*** | 41.56*** | 37.50*** | 36.91*** | 29.41*** | 28.26*** |
| ΔF | 51.56*** | 1.10 | .30 | 36.91*** | .64 | 4.56* |
| R2 | .82 | .83 | .83 | .77 | .77 | .79 |
| ΔR2 | .82 | .00 | .00 | .77 | .00 | .01 |
Note. N = 97. Standardized regression coefficients are reported. Gender: 1 = male, 2 = female; Condition: 0 = control; 1 = fiction. *p<.05, **p<.01, ***p<.001.