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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback. 2017 Mar;42(1):1–12. doi: 10.1007/s10484-016-9347-8

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for physiological and subjective reactivity by condition.

Stress
Control
Mean (SD) Min Max Mean (SD) Min Max


Heart Rate
 Baseline 79.56 (12.59) 47.49 107.94 79.49 (11.64) 59.17 102.72
 Prep 88.89 (16.85) 48.49 126.61 77.83 (10.16) 61.56 92.99
 Speech 92.81 (20.95) 61.29 138.97 78.93 (10.28) 58.85 93.77
 Math 88.64 (18.02) 52.25 119.01 77.92 (10.78) 54.63 93.88
 IGT 74.96 (12.10) 46.64 90.23 77.46 (9.40) 57.95 91.52

SCL
 Baseline 4.30 (4.71) .082 16.55 3.26 (3.91) .13 17.1
 Prep 5.83 (5.11) .12 19.30 4.92 (4.58) .28 20.73
 Speech 6.02 (4.01) .54 14.96 4.79 (4.68) .27 20.41
 Math 5.74 (3.63) .83 14.06 5.48 (4.95) .46 19.80
 IGT 4.83 (3.77) .12 13.59 6.05 (6.00) .35 23.65

NS-SCR
 Baseline 23.69 (19.50) 0 64.50 18.26 (16.20) 0 51.50
 Prep 23.35 (16.78) 0 52.33 20.42 (17.81) 0 62.67
 Speech 38.08 (15.10) .65 62.87 30.83 (18.06) .43 61.25
 Math 43.71 (13.59) 0 62.57 28.06 (18.85) 0 59.16
 IGT 33.98 (16.41) 0 59.50 29.33 (17.35) .46 56.78

Negative
Affect
 Baseline 12.88 (3.23) 10.00 21.00 14.11 (5.07) 10.00 29.00
 Post-Stress 20.80 (8.49) 10.00 42.00 14.07 (4.33) 10.00 24.00
 Post-IGT 13.14 (3.08) 10.00 22.00 12.61 (3.07) 10.00 22.00

Self-reported
Stress
 Post-Speech 6.70 (2.13) 2.00 10.00 3.35 (2.51) 1.00 9.00
 Post-Math 6.54 (2.15) 2.00 10.00 3.93 (2.75) 1.00 9.00

Note:

SCL = Skin conductance levels, NS-SCR = Non-specific skin conductance responses, IGT=Iowa Gambled Task.