Differences of sex and subject area in Chilean university students in the province of Concepcion, Chile
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https://doi.org/10.18800/educacion.201602.004Keywords:
Empathy, University students, Sex Differences, Subject Area Differences, Higher educationAbstract
This research explores sex and discipline-area differences in empathy across the
Interpersonal Reactivity Index developed by Davis. A descriptive cross-sectional
study was performed with the participation of 680 university students, divided into
351 women and 329 men belonging to Physics-Mathematics, Social-Humanistic
and Biological-Chemistry areas. The results show sex differences in three
dimensions of the inventory with higher scores for women. No differences in
relation to the subject area of the students were observed. There is interaction
between sex and discipline in the mathematical-physicist women who obtained
higher scores in Personal Distress than other participants.
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