Table 5.

Mean empathy scores at T1 for the longitudinal group, separated by gender

Score	Gender (n=99)		p-value
	Male	Female
D1: Impermeability to the emotional feelings of others	-2.3 (6.4)	-7.2 (6.8)	0.0018
D2: Susceptibility to the emotional feelings of others	7.6 (5.8)	11.6 (3.8)	0.0002
D3: Emotional spread responsiveness	3.1 (5.5)	-1.2 (5.9)	0.0018
D4: Susceptibility to emotional involvement with people nearby	8.3 (4.2)	11.8 (4.8)	0.0011
D5: Tendency to avoid emotional involvement with fragile people	-1.5 (3.7)	-2.7 (2.6)	0.0073
Total	15.0 (20.3)	40.0 (20.0)	<0.0001