Table 1. Demographic sample characteristics.

	HSA	LSA	test statistics
SPIN (M, SD)	36.20 (7.99)	8.66 (3.95)	t = 22.02***, df1 = 73
age (M, SD)	28.78 (7.81)	29.62 (9.69)	t = -0.48, df = 94
number of women	34	33	χ2 = 2.00, df = 3
years of education (M, SD)	12.33 (2.05)	12.20 (1.75)	t = 0.35, df = 97
number of students	25	20	χ2 = 0.50, df = 1

Note. HSA = high social anxiety; LSA = low social anxiety; SPIN = Social Phobia Inventory; M = mean; SD = standard deviation,

¹ we used Welch’s two sample t-test;

*p< 0.05,

p< 0.01**,

p < 0.001***.