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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2009 Apr 11;66(7):691–694. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.02.028

Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients and Control Subjects

GSAD (N=30) HC (N=30) a
Mean SD Mean SD t p
Age (years) 27.20 7.80 29.90 8.13 1.31 0.194
Education (years) 15.67 1.58 15.76 1.45 0.23 0.822
Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale 76.70 17.31 13.38 11.32 14.68 <0.0001
Spielberger State Anxiety 41.17 9.85 26.40 5.56 6.08 <0.0001
Spielberger Trait Anxiety 48.80 9.11 28.60 5.25 8.96 <0.0001
Beck Depression Inventory 10.70 6.51 1.84 2.37 6.45 <0.0001
N % N % χ2 p
Gender 1.71 0.190
 Male 15 50.00 10 33.33
 Female 15 50.00 20 66.67
Race 0.36 0.838
 Caucasian 24 80.00 23 76.67
 African American 5 16.67 5 16.67
 Asian 1 3.33 2 6.67
a

Education data was missing from 5 HC subjects, and clinical symptomatology data are not available from 10 HC subjects. GSAD, Generalized Social Anxiety Disorder; HC, Healthy Control