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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2013 Jun;44(3):412–418. doi: 10.1007/s10578-012-0335-9

Table 1.

Demographic Characteristics of Participants and Anxious Group Comparisons

SAD (n = 21) No SAD (n = 45) Differences
Parent Gender [% (n) Female] 95.2 (20) 86.7 (39) χ2 (1, N = 66) = 1.11
Parent Mean Age 40.62 (5.90) 41.42 (5.51) t(64) = 0.54
Parent Education Level [% (n) College] 47.6 (10) 46.7(21) χ2 (4, N = 66) = 3.31
Race [% (n) Caucasian] 81.0 (17) 95.6 (43) χ2 (2, N = 66) = 5.23
Child gender [% (n) Female] 61.9 (13) 46.7 (21) χ2 (1, N = 66) = 1.33
Child Mean Age 9.38 (1.86) 9.03 (1.79) t(64) = 0.73
Family Income [% (n) Over $80,000] 66.7 (14) 68.9 (31) χ2 (7, N = 66) = 8.84
Mean Parent SCARED Total 14.14 (11.29) 18.37 (11.75) t(64) = 1.38
Mean Child SCARED Total 20.43 (14.86) 22.07 (11.23) t(64) = 0.50
Parent BSI Anxiety T-score 62.9 (6.21) 60.11 (9.23) t(64) = 1.26
Type of task [% (n) Etch-a-sketch] 57.1 (12) 48.9 (22) χ2 (1, N = 66) = 0.39
Marital Status [% (n) Married] 66.7 (14) 93.3 (42) χ2 (1, N = 66) = 7.92*

Note. SAD = Social Anxiety Disorder, SCARED = Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders, BSI = Brief Symptom Inventory. Results presented in percents, number of respondents for categorical variables or standard deviation for continuous variables indicated in parentheses.

*

p = .005