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Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2020 Mar 20;116:104657. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104657

Table 2.

Coefficient estimates of social anxiety symptoms as a function of endogenous in-session cortisol during exposure therapy

	Total Fear	Total Avoidance	Performance - Fear	Performance - Avoid
*AIC*	602.84	607.23	505.70	482.21
Predictor	*b (SE)*	*b (SE)*	*b (SE)*	*b (SE)*
Intercept	38.43 (2.69)^***	37.01 (2.95)^***	20.49 (1.36)^***	18.86 (1.46)^***
Session	−1.81 (0.57)^**	−1.36 (0.65)^*	−0.91 (0.34)^**	−0.67 (0.31)^*
Cortisol (ln)	−3.24 (3.22)	−2.57 (2.82)	−1.62 (1.28)	−0.70 (1.30)
Session × cortisol (ln)	1.54 (0.54)^**	1.68 (0.61)^**	0.86 (0.31)^**	0.87 (0.29)^**
Covariates
BMI	0.81 (0.42)⁺	0.94 (0.46)^*	0.50 (0.21)^*	0.64 (0.23)^**
Session × BMI	−0.04 (0.07)	−0.04 (.08)	−0.03 (0.04)	−0.05 (0.03)
Female	2.91 (4.52)	5.06 (5.03)	−0.08 (2.31)	1.28 (2.45)
Session × female	−0.61 (0.78)	−1.16 (0.91)	0.03 (0.45)	−0.32 (0.42)
Number of samples	0.77 (0.81)	0.53 (0.89)	0.23 (0.41)	0.13 (0.44)
Session × number of Samples	−0.16 (0.23)	−0.31 (0.25)	−0.13 (0.14)	−0.22 (0.12)⁺
Collection time	1.09E-5 (2.89E-4)	−0.0001 (0.0003)	3.06E-5 (0.0002)	−3.36E-5 (0.0002)
Session × collection time	1.01E-5 (5.05E-5)	−3.49E-5(5.89E-5)	−1.02 (2.87E-5)	−2.33 (2.71E-5)

Note:

⁺

p < .10,

p < .05,

^**

p < .01,

^***

p <.001;

BMI = Body mass index