Emotion recognition and extraversion of medical students interact to predict their empathic communication perceived by simulated patients

Table 3 Parameter estimates for crossed random effects model of student empathic behavior (judged by simulated patients) depending on students’ emotion recognition and extraversion

Fixed effects	Estimate	SE	t	p
Intercept	3.85	0.14	27.62	< 0.001**
Emotion Recognition (ER)	< 0.01	0.01	0.14	0.889
Extraversion	0.02	0.04	0.64	0.523
ER x Extraversion	0.03	0.01	2.32	0.021*
Control Variables
Age	−0.02	0.02	−0.95	0.342
Gender^a	− 0.05	0.08	− 0.61	0.546
SP Age	− 0.01	0.01	− 0.70	0.489
SP Gender^a	−0.42	0.19	−2.21	0.035*

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