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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2018 May 23;267:30–36. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2018.05.053

Table 1.

Descriptive data for the entire sample and comparison by group

Overall (N=64) Hoarding (n=24) Healthy (n=40)

M SD M SD M SD

Age 49.33 15.43 54.21 11.91 46.40 16.66 t(60) = 2.18, p = 0.033
IQ 116.28i 6.52i 118.49 4.80 114.85i 7.13i t(59) = 2.19, p = 0.032
Overall hoarding severitya 26.41j 24.05j 53.38 14.36 9.82j 8.78j t(61) = 14.97, p < 0.001
Emotional attachment to possessionsb 69.00 35.28 96.13 36.17 52.70 22.66 t(62) = 5.92, p < 0.001
Anxiety levelc 5.20 6.75 10.21 8.36 2.20 2.80 t(62) = 5.01, p < 0.001
Depression leveld 6.36 10.65 13.92 14.01 1.83 3.34 t(62) = 5.24, p < 0.001
Early life adversitye 1.84 2.20 3.45h 2.48h 0.95 1.40 t(60) = 4.97, p < 0.001
Accuracy in visual processingf 33.95 4.07 33.56 5.14 34.19 3.32 t(62) = −0.43, p = 0.666
Detail-oriented visual processing styleg 1.45 0.31 1.42 0.40 1.48 0.24 t(62) = −0.54, p = 0.592
a

Saving Inventory, Revised scores;

b

Possession Comfort Scale scores;

c

Beck Anxiety Inventory scores;

d

Beck Depression Inventory scores;

e

Adverse Childhood Experience scores;

f

RCFT accuracy scores;

g

RCFT Central Coherence Index score, smaller number represent a more detail-oriented visual processing style;

h

data from 2 participants were missing;

i

data from 3 participants were missing;

j

data from 1 participant were missing

Note. All data in this table are non-transformed data.