Table 1.

Differences in depressive symptoms (assessed by PHQ), brooding and suppression between the subclinically depressed and the non-depressed groups

	SBD group		ND group		Levene’s test F	t	p	95 % CI
	M	SD	M	SD
Depressive symptoms	4.821	.945	1.913	1.055	1.211 (ns)	13.071	<.001	[2.467, 3.349]
Brooding	12.643	3.368	10.261	3.422	.023 (ns)	3.236	.002	[.924, 3.839]
Suppression	45.357	11.106	36.402	13.625	1.217 (ns)	3.169	.002	[3.359, 14.551]

SBD subclinically depressed, ND non-depressed