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Table 1.

Demographic and psychometric sample characteristics

	Spider phobia	N	Healthy control	N	P value
Age	21.4 ± 4.2	18	22.2 ± 2.2	18	0.461^a
Education	17 A/1 M	18	16 A/2 M	18	1.00^b
SPQ	23.2 ± 2.8	17	4.6 ± 2.4	16	<0.001^a
FSQ	76.7 ± 4.8	17	4.8 ± 7.0	16	<0.001^a
STAI-state	43.6 ± 7.3	18	36.2 ± 8.2	18	0.008^a
STAI-trait	42.4 ± 5.6	17	37.2 ± 8.4	16	0.044^a
BDI-II	9.2 ± 5.5	17	6.2 ± 4.0	16	0.082^a

Notes: Mean and standard deviation of demographic and psychometric sample characteristics. Age is specified in years and education is stated in the number of participants with higher education entrance qualification (A) and secondary education (M). N = number of participants (some participants had to be discarded due to missing data).

^aTwo-sided t-tests.

^bFisher’s exact test for cross tables.