Table 4.

Partial correlations between measures for Empathy and the Big Five for the Chinese (C), German (D), Spanish (E) and USA sample corrected for age.

		Extraversion		Neuroticism		Openness		Conscientiousness		Agreeableness
		r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Empathy Quotient	C	0.3311	<0.001	–0.197	<0.001	0.262	<0.001	0.405	<0.001	0.385	<0.001
	D	0.1931	0.001	–0.123	0.031	0.137	0.017	0.369	<0.001	0.489	<0.001
	E	0.185	0.153	–0.107	0.411	0.017	0.899	0.209	0.105	0.468	<0.001
	USA	0.359	<0.001	–0.096	0.366	0.178	0.091	0.445	<0.001	0.532	<0.001
IRI fantasy	C	0.065	0.175	0.262	<0.001	0.1931,2	<0.001	0.036	0.452	0.006	0.896
	D	0.074	0.199	0.075	0.193	0.211	<0.001	–0.070	0.220	–0.047	0.418
	E	0.120	0.355	0.117	0.370	0.4531	<0.001	–0.189	0.145	0.206	0.112
	USA	–0.076	0.474	0.308	0.003	0.4082	<0.001	0.099	0.349	0.163	0.123
IRI perspective taking	C	0.215	<0.001	–0.164	<0.001	0.258	<0.001	0.3271	<0.001	0.353	<0.001
	D	0.057	0.325	–0.164	0.004	0.143	0.013	0.1771	0.002	0.377	<0.001
	E	0.172	0.184	–0.091	0.483	0.166	0.203	0.096	0.463	0.259	0.044
	USA	0.111	0.295	–0.074	0.484	0.237	0.023	0.327	0.002	0.263	0.012
IRI empathic concern	C	0.243	<0.001	0.089	0.064	0.049	0.303	0.149	0.002	0.291	<0.001
	D	0.077	0.179	0.054	0.350	0.137	0.017	0.189	<0.001	0.468	<0.001
	E	0.020	0.878	0.117	0.371	0.164	0.206	0.099	0.448	0.401	0.001
	USA	0.120	0.256	–0.006	0.952	0.134	0.206	0.198	0.059	0.352	<0.001
IRI personal distress	C	–0.177	<0.001	0.594	<0.001	–0.144	0.003	–0.335	<0.001	–0.140	0.003
	D	–0.219	<0.001	0.536	<0.001	–0.014	0.811	–0.098	0.087	0.022	0.701
	E	–0.218	–0.092	0.489	<0.001	0.092	0.479	–0.059	0.652	0.168	0.196
	USA	–0.191	0.070	0.488	<0.001	–0.044	0.680	–0.258	0.013	0.004	0.973

Index numbers represent significant difference in correlation, values with the same index number (per field) differ significantly from each other. Coefficients were also calculated for the female and the male subsamples (compare results). A significance threshold of p = 0.01 was defined to account for multiple testing of the five personality dimensions.