Table 1. Descriptive statistics for all participants and ERD groups.
| Emotion Regulation Difficulties | ||||||
| All participants (n = 63) | Low (n = 18) | High (n = 19) | F(1,35) | p | ||
| Descriptive data | ||||||
| Age | 20.89 (1.93) | 21.83 (2.15) | 19.79 (1.13) | 13.294 | 0.001 | |
| HADS scores | Anxiety | 7.89 (2.71) | 6.28 (2.3) | 9.26 (2.47) | 14.468 | 0.001 |
| Depression | 2.97 (2.24) | 1.72 (1.6) | 4.42 (2.59) | 14.347 | 0.001 | |
| Physiological data | ||||||
| Baseline | SCL time 1 (µS) | 7.85 (3.08) | 6.99 (2.85) | 7.39 (2.7) | 0.197 | 0.660 |
| SCL time 2 (µS) | 7.11 (3.13) | 6.11 (2.76) | 6.76 (2.94) | 0.469 | 0.498 | |
| SCL time 3 (µS) | 6.44 (3.26) | 5.42 (2.88) | 6.19 (3.26) | 0.576 | 0.453 | |
| HF-HRV (ln(ms2)) | 6.71 (1.11) | 6.48 (1.38) | 6.43 (1.06) | 0.019 | 0.890 | |
| HR (bpm) | 82.81 (12.04) | 81.84 (12.17) | 87.6 (11.38) | 2.212 | 0.146 | |
| Elicitation | SCL (µS) | 7.19 (3.55) | 6.3 (3.47) | 7.03 (3.73) | 0.378 | 0.543 |
| HF-HRV (ln(ms2)) | 6.26 (0.96) | 5.97 (1.17) | 6.02 (0.98) | 0.023 | 0.881 | |
| HR (bpm) | 81.49 (10.42) | 80.2 (10.58) | 86.81 (10.47) | 3.651 | 0.064 | |
| Recovery | SCL time 1 (µS) | 7.03 (3.52) | 6.37 (3.6) | 6.92 (3.91) | 0.204 | 0.654 |
| SCL time 2 (µS) | 6.58 (3.49) | 5.88 (3.44) | 6.48 (4.01) | 0.232 | 0.633 | |
| SCL time 3 (µS) | 6.39 (3.59) | 5.88 (3.58) | 6.33 (4.25) | 0.126 | 0.725 | |
| HF-HRV (ln(ms2)) | 6.48 (1.09) | 6.25 (1.23) | 5.95 (1.01) | 0.671 | 0.418 | |
| HR (bpm) | 83.98 (11.10) | 83.56 (10.42) | 90.03 (11.41) | 3.237 | 0.081 | |
| Δ scores | ΔHF-HRV1 | −0.45 (0.47) | −0.52 (0.5) | −0.41 (0.33) | 0.629 | 0.433 |
| ΔHF-HRV2 | −0.22 (0.48) | −0.29 (0.37) | 0.07 (0.47) | 6.397 | 0.016 | |
Legend: HADS: Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale; SCL: Skin Conductance Level; HF-HRV: High Frequency Heart Rate Variability; HR: Heart Rate; ΔHF-HRV1: HF-HRV(elicitation)–HF-HRV(baseline); ΔHF-HRV2 = HF-HRV(elicitation)–HF-HRV(recovery).