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Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2014 Nov 26;45(7):1521–1529. doi: 10.1017/S0033291714002657

Table 1.

Participants’ characteristics

	Social anxiety (n = 20)	Control subjects (n = 20)	F value	p value

Age, years	29.1 (7.5)	27.7 (7.7)	0.33	0.57
Gender, male/female	11/9	11/9
Years of education	16 (2.4)	16.4 (2.2)	0.26	0.61
LSAS	85.9 (13.9)	21.6 (13.1)	225.23	<0.001
BDI	20.5 (11.6)	5.2 (4.4)	40.52	<0.001
SPAI-SP	136.3 (21.3) 49.8 (24.9)		132.9	<0.001
BFNE	54.3 (5.6)	36.0 (9.2)	44.59	<0.001
NEO-N	43.6 (9.8)	29.5 (6.7)	24.54	<0.001
NEO-E	30.8 (6.3)	42.7 (4.8)	39.51	<0.001
BIS	24.7 (3.4)	18.5 (4.2)	25.7	<0.001
BAS-Reward	14.9 (2.3)	16.6 (2.2)	5.8	0.021

Values represent the mean (standard deviation)

LSAS, Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale; BDI, Beck

Depression Inventory; SPAI-SP, Social Phobia Anxiety

Inventory – Social Phobia subscale; BFNE, Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation; NEO-FFI, NEO Five-Factor Inventory; BIS/BAS, Behavioral Inhibition and Activation Scale.