Table 1 Factor loading, eigenvalues, and percent of variance for EQ scale items emerging from the principal components analysis (n = 818)
Items | Factors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cognitive empathy | Self-consciousness | Emotional empathy | Social skills | |
1. EQ36 | ||||
Good at understanding others | 0.787 | |||
2. EQ26 | ||||
Quick to feel others are uncomfort | 0.760 | |||
3. EQ41 | ||||
Sensitive to others’ feelings | 0.756 | |||
4. EQ19 | ||||
Insightful to others’ talk | 0.743 | |||
5. EQ54 | ||||
Sensitive to others’ talk intention | 0.693 | |||
6. EQ52 | ||||
Tune into how someone feels | 0.588 | |||
7. EQ58 | ||||
Good at prediction | 0.579 | |||
8. EQ55 | ||||
Sensitive to others’ talk intention | 0.568 | |||
9. EQ44 | ||||
I can sense if I am intruding | 0.567 | |||
10. EQ01 | ||||
Sensitive to others’ intention | 0.536 | |||
11. EQ15 | ||||
Focus on my own thoughts in talk | 0.711 | |||
12. EQ34 | ||||
Regard my bluntness as rudeness | 0.682 | |||
13. EQ27 | ||||
Say offendence | 0.668 | |||
14. EQ28 | ||||
Reply someone truthfully | 0.676 | |||
15. EQ30 | ||||
Being often told unpredictable | 0.668 | |||
16. EQ31 | ||||
Enjoy being the center | 0.642 | |||
17. EQ24 | ||||
Like impulsion | 0.555 | |||
18. EQ29 | ||||
Can’t always see offendence cause | 0.527 | |||
19. EQ06 | ||||
Enjoy caring for other people | 0.779 | |||
20. EQ50 | ||||
Emotionally detached with a film | 0.727 | |||
21. EQ38 | ||||
Feel upsets to see animals in pain | 0.683 | |||
22. EQ42 | ||||
Get upset if see sufferings | 0.632 | |||
23. EQ21 | ||||
Hard to find upset | 0.597 | |||
24. EQ59 | ||||
Involved with a friend’s problems | 0.519 | |||
25. EQ08 | ||||
Hard to know what to do | 0.750 | |||
26. EQ35 | ||||
Don’t tend to find confusion | 0.641 | |||
27. EQ04 | ||||
Difficult to explain to others | 0.627 | |||
28. EQ48 | ||||
People say I am insensitive | 0.583 | |||
29. EQ33 | ||||
Enjoy discussing about politics | 0.548 | |||
Eigenvalues | 4.679 | 2.213 | 2.159 | 1.857 |
Variance explained | 18.994% | 15.260% | 13.386% | 13.073% |