Table 3.

Observations on behavioural tasks.

	Anxious group	Non anxious group
	Mean (SD)		t-test
Speech task
Overprotection	1.25 (0.31)	1.29 (0.26)	t(88)=0.57
Expressed anxiety	2.19 (0.63)	1.89 (0.60)	t(88)=−2.15⁎
Positive behaviour	2.84 (0.47)	2.59 (0.63)	t(88)=−2.1⁎
Tangram task
Overprotection	1.36 (0.45)	1.37 (0.30)	t(88)=0.19
Expressed anxiety	1.11 (0.22)	1.06 (0.14)	t(82.54)=−1.35
Positive behaviour	2.78 (0.77)	2.58 (0.51)	t(81.28)=−1.47
Black box task
Overprotection	1.49 (0.46)	1.53 (0.48)	t(88)=0.37
Expressed anxiety	1.76 (0.69)	2.05 (0.81)	t(88)=1.79
Positive behaviour	3.48 (0.82)	2.83 (0.91)	t(88)=−3.40⁎⁎

^⁎p<0.05.

^⁎⁎p<0.01.