Table 1.
Mean age, mean educational attainment (years), and mean scores (± standard deviation) for social anxiety-related questionnaires (LSAS, SPS, SIAS, FSSS, SPAI, FNE) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for patients suffering from social anxiety disorder (SAD) and healthy controls (HC).
| SAD (M ± SD) |
HC (M ± SD) |
t-value |
P-value (2-tailed) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 27.29 ± 7.69 | 27.38 ± 5.77 | − 0.042 | 0.966 |
| Education | 12.88 ± 1.30 | 13.38 ± 1.14 | − 1.422 | 0.162 |
| LSAS | 64.13 ± 16.32 | 9.67 ± 6.93 | 15.050 | ≤ 0.001 |
| SPS | 31.38 ± 9.90 | 2.17 ± 2.94 | 13.850 | ≤ 0.001 |
| SIAS | 45.88 ± 14.03 | 10.13 ± 6.77 | 11.243 | ≤ 0.001 |
| FSSS | 1.80 ± 0.39 | 0.37 ± 0.27 | 14.841 | ≤ 0.001 |
| SPAI | 3.72 ± 0.76 | 0.58 ± 0.57 | 16.200 | ≤ 0.001 |
| FNE | 62.00 ± 8.72 | 31.83 ± 6.47 | 13.617 | ≤ 0.001 |
| BDI | 10.54 ± 7.32 | 1.50 ± 2.99 | 5.602 | ≤ 0.001 |
Note: M = Mean; SD = standard deviation; LSAS = Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale; SPS = Social Phobia Scale; SIAS = Social Interaction Anxiety Scale; FSSS = Fragebogen zur Selbstbeschreibung in sozialen Situationen; SPAI = Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory; FNE = Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale; BDI = Beck Depression Inventory.