Table 2.
Bias scores on the SRET
| Group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Asthma | MDD | RMD | NC |
| Proportion of words endorsed | ||||
| sad | 0.04 (0.04)a | 0.27 (0.20)b | 0.13 (0.12)c | 0.03 (0.04)a |
| pos | 0.88 (0.10)a | 0.46 (0.19)b | 0.69 (0.17)c | 0.92 (0.10)a |
| pt | 0.03 (0.04)a | 0.12 (0.07)b | 0.08 (0.05)c | 0.02 (0.03)a |
| st | 0.05 (0.04)a | 0.16 (0.07)b | 0.09 (0.05)c | 0.03 (0.04)a |
| Mean reaction time to words, ms | ||||
| sad | 1400.9 (507.0) | 1987.2 (702.8)a | 1915.3 (591.1)a | 1472.1 (529.9) |
| pos | 1361.3 (494.0)a | 2664.1 (3081.6)b | 1707.1 (645.2)a,b | 1364.3 (489.4)a |
| pt | 1288.4 (424.1) | 1915.8 (526.1)a | 1778.2 (608.6)a | 1342.3 (497.6) |
| st | 1453.7 (461.4)a,c | 2063.6 (528.1)b | 1888.4 (627.0)b,c | 1575.1 (607.0)a |
| total | 1372.1 (446.7) | 1978.0 (515.8)a | 1790.8 (519.1)a | 1418.2 (490.1) |
| Proportion of endorsed and recalled words | ||||
| sad | 0.02 (0.05) | 0.37 (0.27)a | 0.31 (0.33)a | 0.02 (0.04) |
| pos | 0.91 (0.11) | 0.40 (0.27)a | 0.56 (0.36)b | 0.95 (0.08) |
| pt | 0.04 (0.08) | 0.13 (0.22)a | 0.05 (0.07)b | 0.02 (0.05) |
| st | 0.03 (0.06)a,c | 0.11 (0.11)b | 0.09 (0.14)b,c | 0.01 (0.03)a |
SRET, Self-Referential Encoding and Incidental Recall Task; MDD, major depressive disorder group; RMD, remitted depressed group; NC, non-psychiatric healthy control group; sad, depression-specific words; pos, positive words; pt, physically threatening words; st, socially threatening words.
Values are given as mean (standard deviation).
a,b,c
Different superscripts within rows indicate significant group differences (p ≤ 0.05).