Table 2.

Subjective mood response to distressed infant film

	Depressed symptom group		Control group
	Pre-film	Post-film	Pre-film	Post-film
Spielberger state anxiety (mean, SD)	38.8 (12.9)	48.4 (12.7)	29.8 (6.5)	36 (9.6)
Positive PANAS (mean, SD)	29.9 (7.4)	28.1 (7.7)	35.2 (6.7)	35.6 (12.7)
Negative PANAS (mean, SD)	19.2 (7.3)	22.5 (8.7)	12.8 (3.9)	16.4 (14.1)
VAS “How much did you want to comfort the baby?” (mean, SD)		85.1 (23.8)		82.6 (19.1)
VAS “How upsetting did you find the film?” (mean, SD)		53.5 (24.7)		54.6 (26.1)
VAS “How good do you think you would be at comforting the baby?” (mean, SD)		65.3 (20.7)		67.3 (20.8)

PANAS positive and negative affect scale, VAS visual analogue scale