Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of cognitive abilities, emotion recognition, and trait emotional intelligence measures, and t-tests with effect size estimates comparing male and female participants.
| Total Sample (n = 214) |
Females (n = 108) |
Males (n = 106) |
Gender Comparisons | Correlation with Gender (0 = Female, 1 = Male) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | t(212) | d | r | |
| CFT 20-R | 45.30 | 4.96 | 44.6 | 5.0 | 46.1 | 4.8 | −2.21 *** | −0.31 | 0.14 * |
| Auditory Threshold | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.08 | 0.92 | −0.08 | 1.07 | 1.18 | 0.16 | −0.11 |
| Visual Threshold | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.40 | 0.99 | −0.40 | 0.84 | 6.42 *** | 0.87 | −0.40 ** |
| GERT-S Total Score | 0.71 | 0.09 | 0.74 | 0.09 | 0.69 | 0.08 | 3.34 **** | 0.59 | −0.30 ** |
| TEIQue | 5.07 | 0.54 | 5.00 | 0.53 | 5.14 | 0.55 | −1.99 * | −0.26 | 0.13 |
Note: GERT-S = Geneva Emotion Recognition Test short form, Hu = unbiased hit rate; CFT 20-R = Cattell’s Culture Fair Test—Revised German version, TEIQue = Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire. Higher sensory threshold values represent lower sensory sensitivity. * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001 (two-tailed).