Table 4.
Partial correlations between childhood maltreatment, social cognitive variables, interpersonal problems, and depression, controlled for age and gender.
| Variable | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Childhood Maltreatment | 1 | |||||||||
| 2. Empathic Concern | 0.18 | 1 | ||||||||
| 3. Perspective Taking | −0.17 | 0.28** | 1 | |||||||
| 4. Empathic Distress | 0.45*** | 0.24* | −0.20* | 1 | ||||||
| 5. RMET errors | −0.08 | −0.13 | −0.06 | −0.02 | 1 | |||||
| 6. Anger accuracya | 0.11 | 0.12 | −0.11 | 0.17 | −0.16 | 1 | ||||
| 7. Happiness accuracya | −0.20† | −0.07 | 0.03 | −0.26** | −0.21* | 0.13 | 1 | |||
| 8. Sadness accuracya | 0.14 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.07 | −0.25* | 0.29** | 0.19 | 1 | ||
| 9. FERT global accuracya | 0.02 | 0.18 | 0.11 | 0.05 | −0.34** | 0.65*** | 0.37*** | 0.60*** | ||
| 10. Interpersonal Problemsb | 0.43*** | 0.21* | −0.33** | 0.75*** | 0.03 | 0.11 | −0.14 | 0.12 | −0.01 | 1 |
| 11. Depression | 0.52*** | 0.35*** | −0.18 | 0.73*** | −0.02 | 0.22* | −0.12 | 0.19 | 0.11 | 0.75*** |
RMET, Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test; FERT, Facial Expression Recognition Task.
p < 0.06,
p < 0.05,
p < 0.01,
p < 0.001.
n = 102;
n = 107.