Table 4.

Experiment 2, Descriptive Statistics.

	All (n=139)		Young (n=38)		Older (n=101)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p
Age (yrs)	57.53	24.95	19.89	2.79	71.69	10.75	<0.001
Age range (yrs)			18–35		48–89
Sex (M/F)	45/94		11/27		34/67		0.60
Education (yrs)	14.91	2.29	13.74	1.08	15.34	2.47	<0.001
BSI-Depression	0.40	0.47	0.50	0.54	0.36	0.44	0.10
BSI-Anxiety	0.48	0.46	0.69	0.63	0.40	0.36	0.01
Mini-Mental State Exam	--	--	--	--	29.06	1.14	--
TAS-20 Total	43.26	9.76	43.66	9.42	43.11	9.93	0.77
Difficulty Identifying Feelings	12.64	4.39	13.26	4.93	12.41	4.18	0.31
Difficulty Describing Feelings	11.47	3.71	12.55	3.97	11.07	3.52	0.05
Externally Oriented Thinking	19.14	4.42	17.84	3.98	19.63	4.49	0.03
Trail-making A (sec)	28.31	10.29	20.29	5.01	31.31	10.18	<0.001
Trail-making B (sec)	68.89	26.15	59.55	19.95	72.41	27.41	0.003
Symbol-digit Modalities	52.08	11.88	64.16	9.21	47.53	9.32	<0.001
Category Fluency	20.77	4.65	22.66	3.95	20.06	4.71	0.002

Notes: < .05; <.01; TAS-20 Total = Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 total score; BSI = Brief Symptom Inventory; p values correspond to between-group t-tests except sex (X2).