Table 1.
Descriptive data for the samples of Study 1 and 2.
| Study 1 | Study 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Patients with anorexia nervosa (n = 25) | Patients with chronic depression (n = 29) | Patients with non-chronic depression (n = 30) | Healthy controls (n = 29) |
| Gender | ||||
| % Women | 100 | 62 | 67 | 60 |
| % Inpatients | 100 | 66 | 80 | – |
| Mean age in years (SD) | 24.64 (7.50) | 39.17 (11.68) | 38.57 (11.44) | 38.33 (14.54) |
| Co-morbid diagnoses Major depressive disorder (cases) Anxiety disorder (cases) Eating disorder (cases) Obsessive-compulsive disorder (cases) |
6 0 – 1 |
– 8 2 2 |
– 8 1 0 |
– – – – |
| % Currently on psychotropic medication | 0 | 69 | 77 | 0 |
| % Currently in psychotherapy | 100 | 79 | 77 | 0 |
| Mean BDI-II score (SD)∗ | – | 26.00 (10.87)a | 23.45 (9.64)a | 2.17 (2.93)b |
| Mean PHQ-9 score (SD) | 11.36 (5.45) | – | – | – |
| Mean GAD-7 score (SD)∗ | 8.00 (3.52) | 8.69 (4.73)a | 8.90 (5.16)a | 1.50 (2.60)b |
| Mean RSQ-Brooding score (SD)∗ | – | 12.59 (3.86)a | 12.90 (3.41)a | 7.50 (1.41)b |
| Mean RSQ-Reflection score (SD)∗ | – | 11.48 (3.97)a | 12.07 (3.27)a | 6.17 (1.42)b |
| Mean Pronoun use in positive memory task (SD)∗∗ | 10.22 (3.27) | 7.16 (2.81) | 7.50 (2.68) | 6.43 (3.21) |
| Mean pronoun use in negative memory task (SD) | 10.66 (4.04) | 8.02 (2.10)a | 8.91 (2.95)a | 6.85 (3.44)b |
DI-II, Beck Depression Inventory-II; PHQ-9, Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (Depression Module); GAD-7, General Anxiety Disorder Screener-7; RSQ, Responses Style Questionnaire (Ruminative Response Scale); Pronoun use, relative frequency of first-person singular pronouns in percent; ∗data were missing from one participant; ∗∗positive memory data were only available from 19 patients with anorexia nervosa; different superscripts denote group differences.