Figure 2.
High‐lonely men experienced more intrusions than low‐lonely men in the three days following the trauma video, while this pattern was reversed in women (interaction effect: F (1,77) = 5.57, p = 0.02, η p 2 = 0.07, n = 81; A). The inlay shows the decrease in intrusions over the following three days. High‐lonely men showed an increased desire to talk about the experience (from 0 = no desire to 100 = extreme desire) in contrast to low‐lonely men. Women showed the reversed pattern (interaction effect: F (1,65) = 5.62, p = 0.02, η p 2 = 0.08, n = 69; B). Furthermore, high‐lonely subjects talked less about their traumatic experience regardless of sex (main effect of loneliness: F (1,49) = 9.85, p < 0.01, η p 2 = 0.17, n = 53; C) Error bars show the standard error of the mean (SEM). Abbreviations: T1–T3, days after trauma exposure. P‐values were calculated by mixed‐design ANOVAs with fixed factors sex and loneliness and by two‐sample t‐tests. * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01.