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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2018 Nov 2;186:338–349. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.073

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).