Table 1.
Comparison between groups with and without social anxiety in Imagery Tasks
| Socially anxious group | Non-Anxious Control group | Significance of Differences | p | d (effect size) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA (N = 15) | T | ||||||
| NAC (N = 16) | |||||||
| Imagery Tasks | M | SD | M | SD | |||
| VVIQ | 49.47 | 8.84 | 62.56 | 11.67 | 3.50 | 0.01* | 1.26 |
| VMIQ | 79.13 | 20.98 | 90.56 | 26.00 | 1.34 | 0.19 | 0.48 |
| MIT -Total score | 58.80 | 5.37 | 67.00 | 8.50 | 3.18 | 0.01* | 1.14 |
| MIT – Subscores: | |||||||
| Visualizing letters | 11.47 | 0.64 | 11.63 | 1.02 | 0.51 | 0.61 | 0.18 |
| Brooks “F” test | 8.27 | 1.98 | 9.50 | 1.75 | 1.84 | 0.08 | 0.66 |
| Clock Test | 0.27 | 0.70 | 1.25 | 1.24 | 2.69 | 0.01° | 0.97 |
| Cube Test | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.13 | 1.45 | (a) | - | - |
| Subtraction of parts | 8.13 | 2.45 | 9.31 | 3.26 | 1.13 | 0.27 | 0.41 |
| Mental exploration of a map | 5.00 | 1.56 | 5.31 | 1.30 | 0.61 | 0.55 | 0.22 |
| Imagined paths | 6.40 | 2.47 | 9.25 | 2.14 | 3.43 | 0.01* | 1.23 |
| Mental representation of shapes of objects | 19.27 | 0.70 | 19.63 | 0.62 | 1.51 | 0.14 | 0.54 |
*** p<.001; ** p<.01; * p<.05; ° p<.10 (after Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons)
(a) In the Cube test the group with social anxiety committed 100% errors.