<p>Empathy and clinical scores of the three groups: without alexithymia (NA), and with affective (AA) and cognitive alexithymia (CA). IRI = Interpersonal Reactivity Index, IRI sub-scales: IRI-FS = Fantasy, IRI-PD = Personal Distress, IRI-PT = Perspective Taking, and IRI-EC = Empathic Concern; SP = Social Phobia; STAI = State-Trait Anxiety Inventory; BDI-II = Beck Depression Inventory-II, SD = standard deviation. Values in the same row not sharing the same index differ significantly at p < .05 in the bilateral equality test for column means. The tests are adjusted for all pairwise comparisons within a row using Bonferroni correction.</p>

Empathy and clinical scores of the three groups: without alexithymia (NA), and with affective (AA) and cognitive alexithymia (CA). IRI = Interpersonal Reactivity Index, IRI sub-scales: IRI-FS = Fantasy, IRI-PD = Personal Distress, IRI-PT = Perspective Taking, and IRI-EC = Empathic Concern; SP = Social Phobia; STAI = State-Trait Anxiety Inventory; BDI-II = Beck Depression Inventory-II, SD = standard deviation. Values in the same row not sharing the same index differ significantly at p < .05 in the bilateral equality test for column means. The tests are adjusted for all pairwise comparisons within a row using Bonferroni correction.