Table 3.
Mean Differences for Subjects with Anxious/Depressed Symptoms in the Borderline/Clinical Referral Range as Compared to Subjects Showing No Borderline/Clinical Anxious/Depressed Symptoms on Cognitive and Academic Measures
| Dependent Cognitive and academic Measures1 | Anxious/Depressed N=58 | Non-Anxious/Depressed N=277 | p-Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| WASI FSIQ | 102.6 | 13.3 | 108.0 | 12.6 | 0.00** |
| WASI Verbal IQ | 105.2 | 17.0 | 109.7 | 19.0 | 0.10 |
| WASI Performance IQ | 99.9 | 15.7 | 106.2 | 17.7 | 0.01** |
| WASI Vocabulary | 52.1 | 9.64 | 55.0 | 8.10 | 0.02* |
| WASI Similarities | 53.2 | 8.90 | 55.8 | 8.90 | 0.05* |
| WASI Block Design | 49.8 | 8.80 | 52.9 | 9.61 | 0.02* |
| WASI Matrix Reasoning | 49.9 | 10.0 | 53.5 | 9.90 | 0.01** |
| WISC-III Coding | 11.2 | 2.80 | 11.0 | 2.90 | 0.60 |
| WISC-III Symbol Search | 11.4 | 3.17 | 12.7 | 3.00 | 0.00** |
| WISC-III Digit Span | 9.30 | 2.97 | 10.2 | 2.86 | 0.02* |
| Animal Fluency | 0.86 | 1.30 | 0.87 | 1.32 | 0.95 |
| Trail Making Part A | 0.34 | 0.87 | 0.50 | 1.00 | 0.27 |
| Trail Making Part B | 0.11 | 0.89 | 0.48 | 0.91 | 0.00** |
| Purdue Pegboard Dominant | −1.00 | 1.20 | −0.63 | 1.10 | 0.02* |
| Purdue Pegboard Non-dominant | −0.80 | 1.10 | −0.56 | 1.10 | 0.14 |
| Purdue Pegboard Both | −0.60 | 1.00 | −0.60 | 1.10 | 0.98 |
| CAVLT-2 Level of Learning | 103.9 | 13.9 | 105.7 | 14.6 | 0.39 |
| CAVLT-2 Interference | 98.3 | 18.4 | 99.9 | 15.9 | 0.50 |
| CAVLT-2 Immediate Recall | 104.1 | 13.4 | 104.8 | 16.6 | 0.78 |
| CAVLT-2 Delayed Recall | 101.0 | 15.7 | 104.1 | 15.3 | 0.16 |
| WJ-R Letter-Word Identification | 104.5 | 15.5 | 108.5 | 15.7 | 0.08 |
| WJ-R Applied Problems | 104.7 | 14.1 | 112.1 | 14.4 | 0.00* |
| WJ-R Dictation | 94.2 | 10.5 | 98.3 | 11.9 | 0.01* |
P-value * = < 0.05, ** = < 0.01.
Description of scoring for each cognitive and academic measure is given in the legend for Table 2 and in the text of the Methods.