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Table 1 The frequency, mean, standard deviation, median, range, skewness and kurtosis indices, and reliability (Cronbach’s α) coefficients of the JSE-S by matriculation year and the result of an ANOVA

From: Eleven years of data on the Jefferson Scale of Empathy – medical student version: Japanese norm data and tentative cutoff scores

Matriculation year

Students, n

Mean (SD)

Median

Range

Skewness

Kurtosis

Cronbach's α

2011

113

112.5 (11.6)

113

59—134

-1.10

6.31

0.78

2012

114

110.8 (10.7)

111.5

74—134

-0.26

3.34

0.75

2013

113

108.9 (12.8)

108

58—134

-0.46

4.01

0.82

2014

112

108.4 (13.8)

107.5

59—138

-0.34

3.06

0.86

2015

113

109.9 (12.0)

110

73—136

-0.42

2.89

0.83

2016

115

111.4 (11.9)

112

60—133

-0.98

5.35

0.79

2017

114

110.5 (10.4)

111.5

86—134

-0.22

2.65

0.75

2018

112

112.2 (9.4)

112

87—136

-0.17

2.63

0.75

2019

100

110.3 (10.8)

110

80—129

-0.31

2.46

0.79

2020

109

112.3 (11.3)

113

85—136

-0.20

2.39

0.78

2021

101

111.4 (14.2)

113

50—134

-2.17

9.54

0.87

Total

1,216

110.8 (11.8)

111

50—138

-0.75

4.78

0.81

  1. JSE-S Jefferson Scale of Empathy-medical student version, ANOVA Analysis of variance, SD Standard deviation
  2. ANOVA: F10, 1,205 = 1.43 (p = 0.16, nonsignificant)