Table 3.
Mean (SD) fixation times in ms. as function of face areas, age group, residency location and SES.
| N | Fixation time (ms.) | Intra-group difference1 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mouth area | Eyes area | t | p | ||||
| M | (SD) | M | (SD) | ||||
| (a) Total sample | 27 | 3906.80 | (2187.18) | 2546.53 | (2056.86) | -1.712 | 0.099 |
| Factorial analysis | |||||||
| (b) Age group | |||||||
| 11–24 months | 6 | 4871.63 | (1931.77) | 1841.13 | (2040.49) | 1.967 | 0.106 |
| 25–36 months | 12 | 3519.87 | (2425.77) | 2907.65 | (2124.48) | 0.472 | 0.646 |
| 37–60 months | 9 | 3779.51 | (2045.24) | 2535.30 | (2091.07) | 0.939 | 0.375 |
| Inter-group difference2 | F(1, 24) = 0.773, p = 0.473 | F(1, 24) = 0.518, p = 0.602 | |||||
| Interaction3 | F(1, 24) = 0.674, p = 0.519 | ||||||
| (c) Residency location | |||||||
| Rural areas | 10 | 3269.54 | (2016.65) | 3350.49 | (1952.20) | -0.066 | 0.949 |
| Urban areas | 17 | 4281.67 | (2254.53) | 2073.61 | (2022.26) | 2.195 | 0.043 |
| Inter-group difference4 | t(25) = 1.169, p = 0.253 | t(25) = -1.604, p = 0.121 | |||||
| Interaction3 | F(1, 25) = 2.011, p = 0.169 | ||||||
| (d) SES | |||||||
| LML | 7 | 2715.83 | (1033.48) | 3799.81 | (1942.74) | -0.984 | 0.363 |
| HMH | 20 | 4323.65 | (2345.95) | 2107.88 | (1953.53) | 2.357 | 0.029 |
| Inter-group difference2 | t(28) = -0.586, p = 0.562 | t(28) = 1.028, p = 0.313 | |||||
| Interaction3 | F(1, 28) = 0.793, p = 0.381 | ||||||
Results of T-tests and ANOVAs about intra- and inter-group differences and interactions are about intra-group difference were indicated in each condition.
1T-test for dependent samples; 2One-Way ANOVA; 3Mixed factorial ANOVA;4T-test for independent samples.