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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Emot. 2019 May 23;34(2):273–287. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2019.1621803

Table 1.

Descriptive Information of the Sample Characteristics

Student
Sample 1
(n = 335)
Student
Sample 2
(n = 266)
Clinical
Sample 1
(n = 163)
Clinical
Sample 2
(n = 156)
Age
 Mean (SD) 92.5% between 18 and 21a 19.12 (2.01) 30.75 (12.45) 34.38 (14.25)
 Range 18 – 44 18 – 79 18 – 65
Gender (Female, %) 68.4 41.4 69.9 67.9
Race/ethnicity (%)
 White 90.7 51.1 69.9 69.9
 Asian or Pacific Islander 3.6 33.1 10.4 9.0
 Hispanic 2.4 8.3 8.0 0.0
 African American 2.1 7.5 16.0 11.5
 Other 1.2 5.3 4.3 9.6
Education (%)
 Some high school/high school diploma 0.0 0.0 11.0 5.1
 Some college/university degree 100.0 100.0 60.1 60.3
 Some graduate school/graduate degree 0.0 0.0 26.4 34.6
Employment (%)
 Employed full-time 16.0 14.7
 Employed part-time 25.8 36.5
 Full-time student 38.7 41.0
 Part-time student 3.7 5.8
 Unemployed 31.3 30.1
 Retired/no need for a job 6.7 0.0
Therapy (%)
 Past 7.0
 Current 3.8 65.6 71.8
Psychiatric medication (%) 3.0 56.4 59.6
DSM-5 Diagnosis (%)b
 Generalized anxiety disorder 46.6 33.3
 Social anxiety disorder 39.3 37.8
 Persistent depressive disorder 27.0 10.9
 Major depressive disorder 19.0 11.5
 Panic disorder 18.4 5.1
 Bipolar disorders 13.5 1.3
 Posttraumatic stress disorder 12.3 5.1
 Obsessive compulsive disorder 8.6 6.4

Note. Multiple categories were possible for the following variables: education, employment, and DSM-5 diagnosis. Variables not assessed in a given sample were left blank.

a

Age in Student Sample 1 was assessed with categories.

b

Participants were evaluated by trained graduate-level interviewers for current disorders using the Anxiety and Related Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-5 (ADIS-5; Brown & Barlow, 2014).