Table 1.
Group Characteristics and Means (and Standard Deviations) for the Emotion Meaning Task.
| Malay | Iranian | Australian | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDD (n = 37) | Control (n = 37) | MDD (n = 15) | Control (n = 15) | MDD (n = 19) | Control (n = 23) | |
| Age | 31.65 (9.82) | 28.95 (6.20) | 35.53 (8.11) | 32.20 (7.35) | 27.06 (10.29) | 35.52 (15.52) |
| Gender F:M | 25:12 | 31:6 | 12:3 | 12:3 | 12:7 | 14:9 |
| BDI-II | 27.76 (11.50) | 7.97 (5.32) | 32.60 (10.36) | 9.00 (7.30) | 27.53 (10.00) | 5.00 (4.91) |
| Emotion Recognition Taska | 1.23 (0.19) | 1.24 (0.17) | 1.20 (0.21) | 1.27 (0.23) | 1.19 (0.14) | 1.32 (0.14) |
| Emotion Meaning | ||||||
| Social Worth | 19.11 (8.35) | 19.49 (6.69) | 15.59 (4.72) | 19.40 (7.62) | 13.94 (8.77) | 12.91 (7.86) |
| Appraisals | 34.89 (4.78) | 34.53 (5.17) | 32.78 (5.03) | 28.77 (5.72) | 32.11 (5.80) | 30.60 (5.26) |
| Source | 35.92 (10.00) | 38.35 (7.42) | 31.00 (9.65) | 38.93 (11.34) | 42.56 (7.13) | 45.35 (6.47) |
| Shared | 11.18 (4.27) | 14.16 (3.21) | 11.29 (4.19) | 15.27 (1.33) | 5.63 (3.44) | 4.30 (3.48) |
| Beliefs | 56.54 (10.37) | 46.30 (11.52) | 41.69 (11.07) | 42.67 (11.68) | 52.16 (12.31) | 35.87 (11.34) |
Note: BDI-II = Beck Depression Inventory-II; MDD = major depressive disorder. Source = source of appraisals; shared = shared emotion; beliefs = belief changes. aProportion of Correct Responses on Emotion Recognition Task.