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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Res Ther. 2009 Feb 25;47(5):389–394. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2009.02.010

Table 1.

Mean heart rate values and STAI scores.

Baseline Anticipation Speech Recovery
Heart Rate Reappraisal 73.80 (12.40) 75.62 (12.41) 84.44 (13.35) 73.19 (13.19)
Suppression 77.34 (14.46) 81.51 (15.26) 89.79 (16.06) 77.27 (16.19)
Acceptance 78.40 (11.71) 80.41 (12.08) 88.60 (11.69) 77.48 (11.83)

STAI Reappraisal 12.44 (3.41) 15.36 (4.53) 16.94 (5.03) 12.47 (3.79)
Suppression 12..48 (3.42) 16.69 (4.84) 19.45 (6.05) 14.09 (4.30)
Acceptance 13.86 (4.35) 17.98 (4.88) 19.29 (5.00) 14.40 (4.39)

Note: The table shows mean heart rate values (beats per minute) and STAI scores at baseline, the anticipation phase, the speech phase, and the recovery phase for participants who were asked to reappraise (Reappraisal), suppress (Suppression), or accept (Acceptance) their anxiety.