Table 2.
Demographics
| Healthy youth (n = 17) | Anxious youth (n = 14) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | M | SD | M | SD | t-statistic |
| Age (years) | 13.35 | 2.94 | 13.18 | 3.32 | −0.15 |
| Intelligence (WASI) | 113.76 | 10.88 | 115.14 | 11.54 | 0.11 |
| SCARED-social anxietya,b | 2.56 | 3.11 | 7.93 | 3.29 | 4.43** |
| SCARED-totala,b | 8.04 | 6.87 | 31.98 | 11.14 | 7.07** |
| Fear of negative evaluationc | 8.29 | 5.63 | 17.58 | 7.96 | 3.48* |
**
p < 0.001.
*
p < 0.005.
a
Current anxiety symptoms were assessed by the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders questionnaire (Muris et al. 1998) and were averaged from the child and parent reports.
b
SCARED data from one healthy subject were missing.
c
Fear of Negative Evaluation data was missing from five subjects (three anxious youth and two healthy youth).