Empathy in Chinese eight-year medical program students: differences by school year, educational stage, and future career preference

Table 1 Frequency and percentage distributions and descriptive statistics of scores on the JSE-S by gender

Score interval	Male (n = 201)			Female (n = 241)			Total(n = 442)
Score interval	frequency	cumulative frequency	percentile ranks	frequency	cumulative frequency	percentile ranks	frequency	cumulative frequency	percentile ranks
≤80	12	12	6%	11	11	5%	23	23	5%
81–85	12	24	7–12%	5	16	5–7%	17	40	6–9%
86–90	9	33	13–16%	5	21	8–9%	14	54	10–12%
91–95	15	48	17–24%	19	40	10–17%	34	88	13–20%
96–100	29	77	24–38%	33	73	20–30%	62	150	20–34%
101–105	37	114	43–57%	46	119	32–49%	83	233	37–53%
106–110	33	147	62–73%	44	163	52–67%	78	311	53–70%
111–115	17	164	74–82%	31	194	72–81%	48	359	73–81%
116–120	20	184	83–92%	16	210	81–87%	35	394	82–89%
121–125	10	194	93–97%	20	230	88–95%	30	424	91–96%
126–130	6	200	97–100%	6	236	96–98%	12	436	97–99%
> 130	1	201	100%	5	241	98–100%	6	442	99–100%
Mean score (SD)^a	102.8 (13.5)			105.3 (13.7)			104.2 (13.6)
Median score	103.2			105.6			104.8
Possible range	20–140			20–140			20–140
Actual range	38–134			34–136			34–136

a The mean empathy scores were compared between male and female students by t-test and the p-value is 0.058, which is not significant at the 0.05 level

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