Reliability, validity, and factorial structure of the Turkish version of the Empathy Quotient (Turkish EQ)

Figures & data

Table 1. Sociodemographic characteristics of sample.

	22.60 ± 7.23
Age	n	%
Gender
Female	195	44.7
Male	241	55.3
Marital status
Single	378	86.7
Married	57	13.1
Divorced	1	0.2
Educational status
Primary school	1	0.2
Secondary school	30	6.9
High school	13	3.0
University	392	89.9
Occupation
Student	341	78.2
Civil servants	60	13.8
Worker	26	6.0
Housewife	7	1.6
Retired	2	0.5

Note: EQ, The Empathy Quotient.

Table 2. The results of independent sample T-test.

	Gender	N	Mean	SD	df	t	p
Total EQ	Female	195	46.4462	8.72	434	3.286	.001
	Male	241	43.6763	8.78	434

Table 3. A comparison of Turkish and British EQ data.

	British sample n = 197					Turkish sample n = 436
	Women		Male			Women		Male
	M	SD	M	SD	α	M	SD	M	SD	α
EQ	47.2	10.2	41.8	11.2	0.92	46.45	8.72	43.68	8.78	0.76

Note: EQ, The Empathy Quotient.

Table 4. Correlations between the Turkish EQ and other scales.

	Age	Total EQ	MC-SDS (33 Item)	MC-SDS (13 Item)
Age
Total EQ	0.060
MC-SDS (33 Item)	0.116*	0.299**
MC-SDS (13 Item)	0.064	0.273**	0.672**

Note: EQ, The Empathy Quotient; MC-SDS, Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale.

*Correlation is significant at the .05 level (2-tailed).

**Correlation is significant at the .01 level (2-tailed).

Table 5. Factor Structure of the Turkish EQ.

Eigenvalue	5.135	3.180	1.795
Cumulative variation	12.838	20.787	25.276
Item	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3
EQ52	0.748
EQ55	0.692
EQ58	0.677
EQ36	0.676
EQ54	0.663
EQ25	0.658
EQ44	0.583
EQ26	0.583
EQ19	0.521
EQ41	0.509
EQ43	0.426
EQ1
EQ28
EQ6
EQ59		0.631
EQ48		0.513
EQ32		0.509
EQ50		0.487
EQ42		0.473
EQ39		0.450
EQ18		0.435
EQ38		0.391
EQ34		0.340
EQ60		0.318
EQ11
EQ8			0.604
EQ57			−0.580
EQ14			0.464
EQ21			0.454
EQ22			−0.404
EQ46		0.346	0.385
EQ4			0.321
EQ10			0.317
EQ12
EQ29
EQ35
EQ37
EQ27
EQ49
EQ15

Note: EQ, The Empathy Quotient.

Extraction Method: Principal Components Analysis (PCA).

Rotation Method: Promax with Kaiser Normalization.