Associations between emotional intelligence, empathy and personality in Japanese medical students

BMC Medical Education

Table 5 Mean scores of TEIQue-SF, JSPE and NEO-FFI in gender and gender comparison and Cronbach α

n = 357	α value in this study	α value in original English	Male (SD) n = 265	Female (SD) n = 92	t value	df	p value	Effect size^a
TEIQue SF	0.86	0.88	133.40 (20.72)	131.13 (21.15)	0.89	355	ns	0.11
JSPE	0.87	0.80	83.19 (9.39)	85.91 (7.22)	−2.87	355	0.01	0.30
N	0.85	0.83	25.23 (8.13)	27.33 (7.32)	−2.29	355	0.02	0.27
E	0.84	0.78	27.15 (7.07)	27.15 (7.07)	−0.79	355	ns	0.11
O	0.71	0.75	30.94 (5.79)	32.00 (6.06)	−1.46	355	ns	0.19
A	0.73	0.68	31.64 (5.36)	33.14 (5.43)	−2.29	355	0.02	0.28
C	0.81	0.77	29.03 (6.61)	29.97 (6.73)	−1.16	355	ns	0.15

TEIQue-SF Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-Short Form, JSPE Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy-student version, N Neuroticism, E Extraversion, O Openness to experience, A Agreeableness and C Conscientiousness, SD Standard Deviation, ns not significant, df degree of freedom
^aCohen’s d

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