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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2008 Mar 10;159(1-2):7–17. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.08.020

Table 2.

Attention Test Scores

Variable Non-Patient Comparison Depressed Non-Attempters Low Lethality Attempters High Lethality Attempters p-value1 Contrast2
Continuous Performance Test
  d’ −.04 ± 1.0 −.20 ± 1.1 −.26 ± 1.1 −.17 ± 1.0 .72
Secondary Measures
  Log Beta .05 ± 1.1 −.05 ± 1.0 .15 ± 1.0 −.09 ± 1.1 .65
  Hits −.02 ± 1.0 −.21 ± 1.2 −.43 ± 1.3 −.03 ± 1.1 .20
  False Alarms −.09 ± 1.0 −.15 ± 1.0 .01 ± 1.1 −.21 ± 1.0 .75
  Random Responses −.54 ± 1.5 −.66 ± 1.9 −.23 ± 1.4 −.92 ± 2.0 .26
  RT Hits .22 ± 0.9 −02 ± 1.0 .05 ± 1.1 .07 ± 1.1 .55
Stroop Task
  Percent Interference .20 ± 1.0 −.29 ± 1.1 −.47 ± 1.2 −.89 ± 1.3 <.001 HL < LL, NA < C
Secondary Measures
  RT Word Items .47 ± 1.0 .09 ± 1.5 .05 ± 1.1 .11 ± 1.4 .21
  RT Color Items (X’s) .33 ± 1.0 −.03 ± 1.2 −.11 ± 1.3 .05 ± 1.2 .16
  RT Color/Word Items .36 ± 1.1 −.35 ± 1.5 −.58 ± 1.8 −.71 ± 1.5 <.001 HL, LL, NA < C
  # Correct Word Items −.07 ± 1.1 .38 ± 0.8 .44 ± 0.7 .39 ± 0.9 .004 HL, LL, NA < C
  # Correct Color Items −.18 ± 1.2 .12 ± 1.1 .25 ± 1.2 .17 ± 1.0 .17
  # Correct Color/Word −.41 ± 1.7 .04 ± 1.4 −.40 ± 2.0 −.35 ± 2.0 .35
  Blocked Negative .08 ± 0.7 −.01 ± 0.8 −.00 ± 1.2 −.11 ± 0.7 .41
  Priming
  Mixed Negative Priming −.37 ± 1.3 −.12 ± 1.3 −.04 ± 1.3 .09 ± 2.3 .92
1

Omnibus ANOVA with df=3,242 for CPT and df=3,243 for Stroop.

2

Student/Newman-Keuls post-hoc test.