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. 2015 Jun 6;42(2):484–493. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbv075

Table 1.

Participant Demographic, Clinical, Self-Report Measures, and Task Behavior

Healthy Controls Individuals with Schizophrenia
Mean SD Mean SD P value
Demographics
 Age (y) 36.6 9.2 37.0 8.6 .8
 Sex (% male) 52.8 66.7 .2
 Ethnicity (% non-Cauasian) 66.7 61.4 .6
 Personal Education (y) 14.2 2.1 13.0 2.2 .01
 Parental Education (y) 12.8 1.5 12.9 3.2 .9
Medication status
 Atypical antipsychotics (%) NA 75.4
 Typical antipsychotics (%) NA 5.3
 Typical and atypical (%) NA 7.0
 Not Medicated (%) NA 12.3
Clinical ratings (Item averages)
 Positive (SAPS) NA 0.7 0.7
 Disorganization (SAPS) NA 0.4 0.4
 Negative (SANS) NA 1.2 0.6
 Negative (BNSS) NA 1.4 0.8
Self-Report Measures
 Beck Depression Inventory 3.0 4.8 10.6 10.6 <.001
 Social anhedonia 8.8 6.4 16.3 8.0 <.001
 Physical anhedonia 11.2 6.2 18.5 9.1 <.001
 Snaith Hamilton Pleasure 52.4 3.1 48.1 8.4 <.001
 TEPS consummatory pleasure 37.8 5.8 34.1 8.0 .01
 TEPS anticipatory pleasure 49.2 4.9 44.8 8.9 .003
 Apathy scale 22.2 3.1 26.1 6.6 <.001
Functioning
 SLOF (personal) 4.7 0.4 4.3 0.6 <.001
 SLOF (informant) NA NA 4.1 0.6
Task Behavior
 Reversals 13 9.1 8.4 7.8 .02
 Winstay_Ratio 0.8 0.2 0.7 0.2 .035
 Loseshift_Ratio 0.4 0.1 0.5 0.1 .07
 PE_COR 43.0 16.8 36.8 15.0 .07
 ERROR 133.1 48.6 149.5 44.5 .02
 IA_Trial 23.5 15.2 31.7 15.0 .02
 IA_Run 6.6 2.4 5.7 2.5 .1

Note: SAPS, Schedule for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms; SANS, Schedule for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms; BNSS, Brief Negative Symptwom Scale; TEPS, Temporal Experiences of Pleasure Scale; SLOF, Specific Level of Functioning Scale. IA_Trial: Average number of initial acquisition trials; IA_Run: Runs where initial acquisition was achieved; PE_COR: percentage of probabilistic errors followed by a correct response.