TABLE 9.

The mean and standard deviation for the GAD-7 and its individual items and their correlations to the language-trained scale and the language-predicted valence scale from the worry word responses.

GAD-7 items	M	SD	Language-trained GAD	Language-predicted valence	Partial correlation controlling for valence
GAD-7 total	7.37	5.84	0.54***	−0.50***	0.29***
Item 1 (anxious, on edge)	1.13	0.97	0.49***	−0.47***	0.24***
Item 2 (excessive worrying)	1.09	1.03	0.52***	−0.49***	0.25***
Item 3 (different areas of worry)	1.15	1.00	0.50***	−0.50***	0.19***
Item 4 (trouble relaxing)	1.14	1.00	0.41***	−0.39***	0.21***
Item 5 (restlessness)	0.84	0.96	0.42***	−0.31***	0.31***
Item 6 (annoyed, irritable)	1.05	0.94	0.42***	−0.40***	0.20***
Item 7 (afraid)	0.97	0.99	0.45***	−0.44***	0.23***

N = 411.

***Indicates p < 0.001.

Spearman’s rho, using Holms correction for multiple comparison. M and SD are the mean and standard deviation, respectively.

Ww, worry words, GAD-7, Generalised Anxiety Disorder Scale-7, item numbers correspond to the order in Spitzer et al. (2006). Partial correlation controlling for valence = Partialling out the language-predicted valance between the correlation of language-trained GAD-7 score and observed GAD score.