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Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2012 Mar 3;46(5):651–658. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.02.005

Table 1.

Demographic Information for 194 Young Adults Gamblers

		Low Emotion Dysregulation (N=26)	Average Emotion Dysregulation (N=141)	High Emotion Dysregulation (N=27)	Person Chi Square/ F-Statistic	P- Value
Gender	Female	7 (26.92%)	38 (26.95%)	9 (33.33%)	0.472^χ,^A	0.790
Marital status	Single	22 (84.62%)	133 (94.33%)	23 (85.19%)	4.523^χ,^A	0.104
Education	Some college or less	18 (69.2%)	107 (75.9%)	19 (70.4%)	0.752^χ,^B	0.687
	College grad or more	8 (30.8%)	34 (24.1%)	8 (29.6%)	0.752^χ,^B	0.687
Age	Mean ± St. Dev.	22.12 ±3.59	21.13 ± 3.21	21.72 ±3.67	1.120^FS,^C	0.328
Employment/school	Work (part-time or full time)	8 (30.77%)	28 (19.86%)	5 (18.52%)
	Student	10 (38.46%)	66 (46.81%)	12 (44.44%)	7.683^χ,^D	0.262
	Work and school	6 (23.08%)	42 (29.79%)	6 (22.22%)
	Unemployed or other	2 (7.69%)	5 (3.55%)	4 (14.81%)
Race	Caucasian	22 (84.62%)	122 (86.52%)	21 (77.78%)	1.366^χ,^A	0.505
	Lifetime psychiatric disorder	1 (3.85%)	13 (9.22%)	7 (25.93%)	NA^F	0.028

All values are N (%), unless otherwise specified

^χ

– Pearson Chi-Squared;

^FS

– F-Statistic;

^F

– Fisher's Exact Test;

^A

– 2 df;

^B

– 5 df;

^C

– 2, 193 df;

^D

– 11 df

Abbreviations: df – degrees of freedom