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. 2022 Jan 24;16(5):1107–1121. doi: 10.1007/s11571-021-09765-z

Table 1.

Overview of the demographic information for the participants of this study

HP P-val LP P-val P-val
Male Female Male Female
Num 32 49 32 49
Age 20.3 (1.7) 20.0 (1.9) .43 20.0(1.7) 19.8 (1.4) .35 .29
Educ 14.1 (1.8) 13.9 (2.0) .43 14.0 (1.7) 14.2 (1.0) .70 .29
BMI 20.9 (3.2) 21.4 (3.8) .51 20.9(4.4) 21.4(3.8) .21 .88
BDI 20.5 (6.2) 19.0 (4.8) .22 17.3 (3.8) 18.1 (4.2) .51 .01*
TA 59.0 (9.4) 55.1 (7.4) .57 53.7 (8.9) 52.5 (8.0) .38 .01**
NEO-C 34.7 (5.0) 36.7 (5.8) .13 41.0 (4.4) 42.8 (5.7) .48 .00***
NEO-E 38.3 (8.7) 39.2 (7.8) .64 38.3 (8.7) 38.1 (6.9) .68 .59
NEO-N 39.9 (8.6) 36.0 (7.5) .05 36.0 (7.5) 35.3 (8.4) .24 .12
NEO-A 39.4 (5.7) 39.8 (5.7) .74 39.9 (4.0) 41.2 (5.4) .20 .21
NEO-O 43.7 (6.3) 41.1 (6.2) .07 42.7 (6.6) 41.0 (5.4) .38 .70
PPS 56.6 (1.2) 55.2 (1.2) .51 36.0 (0.0) 35.8 (0.4) .58 .00***

“Num.” indicates the number of the corresponding participants. The cell of the 2th—3th and 5th—6th show the mean value and the corresponding standard deviation within the brackets. p-Val indicates the p-value derived from the the rank-sum Mann–Whitney U test, whilst the 4th and 7th columns present the p-value for the test on gender’s differences of HP and LP respectively. The last column reports the p-value of the examination for the differences between the HP and LP. BMI Body Mass Index; BDI indicates the diagnosis of the depression using the Becker Depression Inventory; TA Trait Anxiety; NEO-C Conscientiousness of big-five personality; NEO-E Extraversion of big-five personality; NEO-N Neuroticism of big-five personality; NEO-A Agreeableness; NEO-O Openness of big-five personality; PPS Pure Procrastination Scale. Asterisk indicates that the p-value have attain the significant level, *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001