Fig. 3
Polynomial regression plot with EC (empathic concern) and PD (personal distress) predicting IWAH (identification with all humanity), along with response surfaces for the overall sample (N = 634), controlling for the effect of age, gender, socially desirable responding, as well as IWAH community and IWAH country scores. EC is represented on the x-axis, PD on the y-axis and IWAH on the z-axis. The blue line represents empathic equilibrium (line of congruence) and the black line represents the empathic disequilibrium (line of incongruence); the left side of the black line depicts PD dominance (PD > EC) and the right side depicts EC dominance (EC > PD). The colour of the response surface indicates the IWAH values, with red colour indicating low magnitude of IWAH values, and yellow to green predicting medium to high magnitude of IWAH values, respectively. Response surface parameters: a1 = 0.238***, a2 = −0.032*, a3 = −0.099, a4 = 0.018. Note. ***p <.001, **p <.01, *p <.05.
