Table 1.
Participant characteristics.
| Stress induction paradigm |
Test statistic | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual Reality (VR) (n = 66) | Script-Driven Imagery (SDI) (n = 61) | |||
| Sex, N (%) | χ2(1, N = 127) = 0.56 | 0.813 | ||
| female | 52 (79) | 47 (77) | ||
| male | 14 (21) | 14 (23) | ||
| Age (years): M (SD) | 22.38 (4.14) | 23.44 (7.37) | t(93) = 0.99 | 0.324 |
| University qualification, N (%) | 65 (98.5) | 61 (100.0) | χ2 (1, N = 127) = 0.93 | 0.334 |
| BSI - GSI: M (SD) | 0.44 (0.40) | 0.45 (0.44) | t(125) = 0.19 | 0.848 |
| BDI-S: M (SD) | 22.43 (11.98) | 22.27 (13.68) | t(122) = 0.07 | 0.945 |
| BAI: M (SD) | 2.63 (3.60) | 2.37 (3.70) | t(123) = 0.41 | 0.686 |
| SUIS: M (SD) | 38.35 (9.21) | 38.23 (8.85) | t(124) = 0.07 | 0.941 |
| Experience in rescue service, N (%) | 3 (4.8) | 3 (5.2) | χ2 (1, N = 120) = 0.01 | 0.933 |
Note. BSI-GSI = Brief Symptom Inventory-Global Severity Index; BDI-S = Beck Depression Inventory-S (simplified version; note that the clinical cut-off score of 35 is different from the original BDI/BDI-II); BAI = Beck Anxiety Inventory; SUIS = Spontaneous Use of Imagery Scale.