Table 2. Mean scores (%) (S.D.) on the cognitive-emotional tasks for the high and low alexithymic groups.
| Alexithymic | Non-Alexithymic | F | χ2 | P | |
| Emotional learning | 79.7 (18.8) | 84.9 (13.0) | 0.90 | 0.35 | |
| Identity learning | 88.7 (9.5) | 92.1 (10.4) | 0.99 | 0.33 | |
| METT | 74.2 (16.6) | 88.8 (9.8) | 9.60 | 0.004* | |
| Affective Prosody Task | |||||
| Prosody Accuracy | 73.2 (13.9) | 77.1 (12.5) | 1.77 | 0.16 | |
| Prosody Reaction Time (ms) | 4040.4 (640.7) | 3875.9 (728.3) | 0.59 | 0.68 | |
| Semantic Accuracy | 87.5 (7.6) | 88.4 (8.4) | 0.32 | 0.86 | |
| Semantic Reaction Time (ms) | 4519.1 (329.2) | 4491.8 (522,5) | 2.44 | 0.07 | |
| Conflicting Beliefs and emotions | |||||
| 1st order cognition | 93.8 (9.1) | 98.6 (3.4) | 2.72 | 0.10 | |
| 2st order cognition | 95.3 (7.7) | 98.6 (4.0) | 2.17 | 1.14 | |
| 1st order emotion | 85.2 (9.9) | 95.1 (8.7) | 9.46 | 0.002* | |
| 2nd order emotion | 75.4 (15.4) | 78.5 (24.2) | 1.12 | 0.29 | |
| Control questions | 97.3 (4.4) | 98.1 (2.7) | 0.25 | 0.87 | |
*
significant at p<0.005 level (2-tailed).