. 2021 Sep 25;2021:4430594. doi: 10.1155/2021/4430594

Table 3.

IRI fantasy (FS), perspective taking (PT), empathic concern (EC), and personal distress (PD) subscale scores in chronic musculoskeletal pain (MSK pain) and healthy control (HC) groups. The perspective-taking and fantasy subscales represent self-report cognitive empathy, while the empathic concern and personal distress subscales represent self-report emotional empathy.

		MSK pain (n = 22)	HC (n = 26)	t	P
Self-repot cognitive empathy	PT	21.86	21.27	0.442	0.660
Self-repot cognitive empathy	FS	18.14	17.77	0.282	0.779
Self-repot emotional empathy	EC	23.00	23.04	-0.039	0.969
Self-repot emotional empathy	PD	19.50	19.58	-0.058	0.954

No significant difference between groups was found in IRI.