Table 2.
SRET Variable | RMD
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CTL
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M (SD) | range | M (SD) | range | |
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Number of positive words endorsed | 13.50 (4.39) | 4–20 | 16.72 (3.07) | 5–20 |
Number of negative words endorsed | 5.99 (3.60) | 1–17 | 2.43 (2.81) | 0–20 |
Proportion of positive words endorsed and recalled | .73 (.17) | .38–1.00 | .88 (.12) | .56–1.00 |
Proportion of negative words endorsed and recalled | .27 (.17) | .00–.63 | .12 (.12) | .00–.44 |
Note. RMD=currently nondepressed participants with a history of recurrent major depression; CTL=never-depressed control participants; M=mean; SD=standard deviation; SRET=Self-Referential Encoding Task.