Measuring Empathizing and Systemizing with a Large US Sample

作者:Wright Daniel B*; Skagerberg Elin M
来源:PLos One, 2012, 7(2): e31661.
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0031661

摘要

A large number of people completed one of two versions of the empathizing quotient (EQ) and systemizing quotient (SQ). One version had the negatively phrased items all re-worded. These re-worded items were answered more rapidly than the original items, and for the SQ produced a more reliable scale. Subjects gave self-assessments of empathizing and systemizing, and these were moderately correlated, r approximate to.6, with their respective quotients. Females had on average higher empathizing scores and males had on average higher systemizing scores. If a female-male pair was chosen at random, the female would have the higher empathizing score about two-thirds of the time, and the males would have the higher systemizing score about two-thirds of the time.

  • 出版日期2012-2-22