Table 7.
Experiment 3, Descriptive Statistics.
| All (n=121) | Young (n=34) | Older (n=87) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | p | |
| Age (yrs) | 53.25 | 22.9 | 19.24 | 0.99 | 66.55 | 9.80 | 0.10 |
| Age range (yrs) | 18–92 | 18–22 | 50–92 | ||||
| Sex (M/F) | 40/81 | 15/19 | 25/62 | 0.11 | |||
| Education (yrs) | 15.03 | 2.77 | 12.72 | 1.01 | 15.93 | 2.71 | 0.01 |
| Mini-Mental State Exam | -- | -- | -- | -- | 28.93 | 1.37 | -- |
| Beck Depression Inventory | 4.03 | 4.21 | 5.65 | 5.40 | 3.40 | 3.48 | 0.03 |
| Beck Anxiety Inventory | 4.23 | 5.02 | 7.94 | 7.31 | 2.83 | 2.78 | <0.01 |
| TAS-20 Total Score | 41.37 | 10.91 | 45.18 | 11.26 | 39.78 | 10.42 | 0.04 |
| Difficulty Identifying Feelings | 11.79 | 5.02 | 13.32 | 5.13 | 11.19 | 4.87 | <0.01 |
| Difficulty Describing Feelings | 11.00 | 3.68 | 12.56 | 3.74 | 10.38 | 3.44 | 0.31 |
| Externally Oriented Thinking | 18.58 | 4.81 | 19.29 | 5.36 | 18.30 | 4.57 | 0.33 |
| Trail-making A (sec) | 30.14 | 12.04 | 28.41 | 11.63 | 30.82 | 12.19 | <0.01 |
| Trail-making B (sec) | 70.41 | 29.12 | 58.58 | 17.66 | 75.02 | 31.41 | 0.03 |
| Executive Factor | 0.00 | 1.00 | −0.31 | 0.80 | 0.12 | 1.05 | <0.01 |
| RBMT IR (raw) | 9.58 | 3.52 | 10.97 | 3.02 | 8.63 | 3.59 | <0.01 |
| RMBT DR (raw) | 8.38 | 3.2 | 9.52 | 2.96 | 7.46 | 3.12 | <0.01 |
Notes: < .05; <.01; TAS-20 = Toronto Alexithymia Scale: DIF =Difficulty Identifying Feelings, DDF = Difficulty Describing Feelings, EOT = Externally Oriented Thinking; Trails = Trail-making Tests; RBMT = Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test, IR = immediate recall; DR = 30-min delayed recall; p values correspond to between-group t-tests except sex (X2); *RBMT n=42.