Table 1.
Descriptive statistics and group differences for valence, arousal, dominance, and familiarity ratings by age.
| Older | Younger | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension | Mean | AvgSD | Min | Max | Range | Mean | AvgSD | Min | Max | Range | p |
| Valence | 4.89 | 1.10 | 1.35 | 8.07 | 6.72 | 4.88 | 1.11 | 1.79 | 7.95 | 6.16 | 0.384 |
| Arousal | 5.63 | 1.37 | 4.29 | 8.00 | 3.71 | 5.54 | 1.50 | 3.00 | 7.83 | 4.83 | <0.001 |
| Dominance | 4.72 | 1.74 | 2.17 | 6.83 | 4.66 | 5.07 | 1.69 | 2.05 | 7.68 | 5.63 | <0.001 |
| Familiarity | 6.84 | 1.22 | 4.78 | 8.04 | 3.26 | 7.20 | 1.37 | 4.44 | 8.42 | 3.98 | <0.001 |
Notes. Reported are the group means of ratings, the average standard deviations (AvgSD), the minimum (Min), the maximum (Max), the range of the average rating means, and, in the last column, the p-value of a two-tailed paired t test comparing the group means.