Table 1.
LSAS and BDI-II Scores and Demographics by Group
| Symptom Measure | Diagnosis | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control (n = 76) |
SAD only (n = 76) |
MDD only (n = 46) |
Comorbid (n = 74) |
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| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | ||
| LSASa | 9.49 | 6.33 | 76.32 | 16.69 | 49.52 | 23.68 | 81.05 | 22.69 | |
| BDI-IIb | 1.73 | 2.27 | 15.37 | 9.20 | 27.88 | 8.25 | 30.33 | 9.52 | |
| Demographic | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Age | 25.31 | 8.16 | 23.78 | 5.86 | 29.48 | 10.54 | 25.64 | 6.15 | |
| Years of education | 15.71 | 2.73 | 14.64 | 2.77 | 13.67 | 4.05 | 13.23 | 3.76 | |
| Gender | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Men | 24 | 31.6 | 31 | 40.8 | 18 | 39.1 | 29 | 39.2 | |
| Women | 51 | 67.1 | 45 | 59.2 | 27 | 58.7 | 42 | 56.8 | |
| Neither | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2.2 | 3 | 4.1 | |
| Ethnicity | |||||||||
| Not Hispanic | 62 | 81.6 | 61 | 80.3 | 34 | 73.9 | 53 | 71.6 | |
| Hispanic | 13 | 17.1 | 15 | 17.1 | 11 | 23.9 | 21 | 28.4 | |
| Race | |||||||||
| Asian | 32 | 42.1 | 29 | 38.2 | 7 | 15.2 | 16 | 21.6 | |
| Black | 3 | 3.9 | 3 | 3.9 | 2 | 4.3 | 5 | 6.8 | |
| Hawaiian Native or Pacific Islander | 1 | 1.3 | 4 | 5.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1.4 | |
| Native American or Alaska Native | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
| White | 30 | 39.5 | 34 | 44.7 | 25 | 54.3 | 37 | 50.0 | |
| More than one race | 6 | 7.9 | 3 | 3.9 | 5 | 10.9 | 10 | 13.5 | |
| Other | 2 | 2.6 | 1 | 1.3 | 4 | 8.7 | 3 | 4.1 | |
| Unknown or decline to respond | 1 | 1.3 | 1 | 1.3 | 2 | 4.3 | 2 | 2.7 | |
| Cultural heritage: Race and ethnicity combined | |||||||||
| Asian heritage | 32 | 42.1 | 29 | 38.2 | 7 | 15.2 | 16 | 21.6 | |
| European heritage | 22 | 28.9 | 24 | 31.2 | 20 | 43.5 | 26 | 35.1 | |
| Latin heritage | 13 | 17.1 | 15 | 19.7 | 10 | 21.7 | 20 | 27.0 | |
Note. N = 272. Some participants had missing data. The number of participants with LSAS and BDI-II scores were: LSAS (n = 270), and BDI-II (n = 225). The number of participants with demographic data were as follows: age (n = 271), years of education (n = 270), gender (n = 271), ethnicity (n = 270), race (n = 270), and race and ethnicity combined (n = 234)
a The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS; Liebowitz 1987) ranges from 0 to 144
b The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II; Beck et al., 1996) ranges from 0 to 63