Table 2.
Demographic characteristics of the sample (N = 147), age presented as the mean and standard deviation in parentheses, between-group difference assessed by ANCOVA. Other characteristics are a percentage of the sample, between-group differences assessed by chi-squared cross tabulation.
| Characteristic | All (n = 147) |
Control (n = 50) |
Gain-Framed (n = 50) |
Loss-Framed (n = 49) |
p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 20.7 (1.5) | 20.6 (1.5) | 20.7 (1.6) | 20.8 (1.3) | 0.66 |
| Sex | |||||
| Female | 75.5 | 66.7 | 76.0 | 81.6 | 0.23 |
| Male | 24.5 | 33.3 | 24.0 | 18.4 | |
| Ethnicity | |||||
| Caucasian | 88.4 | 91.7 | 90.0 | 83.7 | 0.43 |
| Other | 11.6 | 8.3 | 10.0 | 16.3 | |
| University | |||||
| Scotland | 85.5 | 83.3 | 82.0 | 91.5 | 0.36 |
| Rest of UK | 14.4 | 16.7 | 18.0 | 8.5 |
Note: p values represent statistical significance between control, gain and loss-framed groups.