Table 2.
Demographic and Task Performance
| Social Anxiety Disorder (N=20) |
Healthy Controls (N=20) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | |
| Demographic | ||
| Age | 26.80 (8.38) | 26.95 (9.64)a |
| Education in years | 15.85 (2.11) | 15.70 (2.39)a |
| Gender (% male) | 45% | 40%a |
| Clinical | ||
| LSAS | 77.30 (14.13) | 17.15 (12.25)b |
| HAM-A | 7.50 (4.69) | 0.75 (1.21)b |
| ERQ reappraise | 25.15 (5.52) | 33.60 (7.05)b |
| Affective State | ||
| (N=20) | (N=18) | |
| Neutral Condition | 1.24 (0.37) | 1.13 (0.25) |
| Maintain Condition | 3.10 (0.53) | 2.75 (0.77) |
| Reappraise Condition | 2.60 (0.88) | 2.25 (0.76) |
LSAS, Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale; HAM-A: Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale; Two healthy controls participants didn’t select the mood rating before the next session began, thus their performance ratings are not available.
a
There is no gender (X2(2, N=40), p>0.05), age (two sample t-test, p>0.05) or years of education difference (two sample t-test, p>0.05) between healthy controls and social anxious patients.
b
Healthy controls were less socially anxious (LSAS) and less generally anxious (HAM-A) than SAD participants (two-sample t-test, p < 0.05). Healthy controls more commonly use reappraisal (ERQ reappraise) as a daily emotion regulation strategy (two-sample t-test, p<0.05).