@mastersthesis{bal2025literary,
  author = {Bal, Onur},
  title = {Literary Work Readership and Its Relationship with Mentalisation and Empathy},
  school = {Yeditepe University},
  year = {2025},
  type = {Master's thesis},
  url = {https://onurbal.com/en/academics/thesis/}
}

To evaluate the proposed relationships between literary exposure, psychological traits, and social-cognitive outcomes, a series of statistical analyses were conducted. The analyses proceeded in three stages: (1) descriptive statistics and distributional checks were used to assess central tendencies, variability, and normality of continuous variables; (2) correlation analyses were conducted to examine the associations between key demographic, behavioural, and psychological variables; and (3) a series of hierarchical multiple regression models were conducted to assess the predictive value of literary exposure, anxiety, and existential concerns on empathy and mentalisation outcomes, including their interaction effects. These analyses are reported in the subsections that follow.

This section is divided into the following separate reading files.

• 4.1. Descriptive Analyses
• 4.2. Correlation Analysis
• 4.3. Hierarchical Regression Analysis With Interaction Effects