Table 3.

Means, standard deviations, and correlations of the variables in Study 2 (Source: FSDP)

Variable	M	SD	1	2	3	4
1. Principle of care	3.60	.61	—
2. Empathic concern	3.60	.64	.62**	—
3. Perspective taking	3.66	.59	.37**	.37**	—
4. Personal distress	2.69	.56	.07**	.12**	−.03	—
5. Whether give	0.54	.50	.38**	.26**	.17**	−.00

Note: Data were from the Family Survey of the Dutch Population 2009 (FSDP). The ranges of the scales in the first four rows were 1–5. Row 5 is the proportion of participants who reported giving in the past year to national and international aid organizations. The FSDP provided weights to account for the oversample of married and cohabitating persons and to post‐stratify to match national statistics from Statistics Netherlands on sex, region, age, and marital status. The descriptive statistics and correlations we report used the weights. N = 2605.

^* p < .05;

^** p < .01.