Table 2 Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) of demographic and psychometric data

 age (years)

29.27

9.03

27.20

10.03

.420^a

 gender (female/male)

25/5

23/7

.519^b

 education (median/IQR)

4.00

1.25

4.00

0.00

.083^c

 verbal intelligence

28.51

4.07

28.89

3.71

.293^a

 BSL-23

2.28

1.02

0.39

0.40

< .001

  personal distress

15.87

3.01

10.60

3.53

< .001

  empathetic concern

15.63

2.47

14.73

2.60

.174

  perspective taking

13.30

2.74

15.27

2.56

.006

  fantasy

13.80

3.94

14.47

3.14

.472

  SPQ

34.7

13.5

15.5

10.6

< .001

 IC

2.25

0.62

2.17

0.46

 IP

3.56

0.69

4.01

0.47

 LC

1.94

0.49

1.81

0.42

 LP

4.52

0.37

4.70

0.25

 IC vs. LP

1.11

0.31

1.17

0.21

 IP vs. LC

0.89

0.31

1.07

0.22

 IC vs. LP

1.01

0.09

0.95

0.09

 IP vs. LC

1.07

0.11

1.13

0.09