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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Psychol Sci. 2015 Apr 2;3(6):926–939. doi: 10.1177/2167702614566603

Table 1.

Characteristics of the MDD, GAD, MDD-GAD, and CTL Groups

Variable
MDD
GAD
MDD-GAD
CTL
M (SD) or %
M (SD) or %
M (SD) or %
M (SD) or %
Age 31.56 (10.28) 31.07 (6.97) 35.50 (10.10) 34.68 (9.88)
% college educated 68.8% 66.7% 65.0% 68.4%
Race/ethnicity*
 Non-Hispanic White 50.0% 66.7% 60.0% 66.7%
 Hispanic 0% 13.3% 10.0% 0%
 African-American 6.3% 0% 5.0% 11.1%
 Asian-American 18.8% 20.0% 15.0% 5.6%
 Mixed Race/Other 25.0% 0% 10.0% 16.7%
% prompt completion 57.3% 65.5% 68.3% 65.1%
BDI-II 28.25 (8.56) c 14.20 (9.56) b 30.70 (10.63) c 1.47 (2.63) a
GAD-Q-IV 8.01 (4.03) b 10.94 (1.13) c 10.38 (2.62) c 1.89 (2.23) a
RRS Brooding* 13.44 (2.66) b 11.93 (4.00) b 15.50 (2.65) c 6.44 (1.20) a
PSWQ 55.19 (15.20) b 68.07 (6.66) c 61.00 (13.26) b,c 40.79 (12.48) a
GAF 55.94 (5.18) c 64.13 (5.69) b 54.45 (6.09) c 89.37 (8.75) a

Note. MDD = current major depressive disorder; GAD = current generalized anxiety disorder; MDD-GAD = current major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder; CTL = no past or current psychiatric disorder; BDI-II = Beck Depression Inventory-II; GAD-Q-IV = Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire-IV; RRS Brooding = Ruminative Response Scale Brooding Subscale; PSWQ = Penn State Worry Questionnaire; GAF = Global Axis of Functioning.

*

For each variable, data were missing for one CTL participant.

a,b,c

Different superscripts within rows indicate significant pairwise comparisons, p < .05.