Table 2.

Gender effects on motivation disposition profiles.

Variables	Group	Male (x ± SD)	Female (x ± SD)	Levene' s test	Box's M-test	Mean difference	Std. error	P-value
				P-value
BIS	MDD	17.00 ± 2.23	16.43 ± 2.64	0.197	p = 0.28a	−0.26	0.90	0.775
	HC	14.29 ± 1.11	15.38 ± 2.72
BASD	MDD	11.60 ± 2.07	9.57 ± 2.23	0.616		1.85	0.93	0.058
	HC	13.43 ± 1.99	11.75 ± 2.92
BASR	MDD	12.40 ± 1.34	12.57 ± 2.37	0.293		0.08	0.63	0.896
	HC	14.71 ± 1.38	14.38 ± 1.06
BASF	MDD	15.40 ± 0.89	13.14 ± 1.35	0.014*		1.05	0.73	0.165
	HC	14.71 ± 2.06	14.88 ± 2.42

^*P < 0.05.

^aBox's M test confirmed the equivalence of covariance matrices across levels of the independent variables.