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Table 3 Means and Standard Deviations of high and low symptom reporters concerning emotional awareness, the Emotion Recognition and affective Theory of Mind paradigm (ERaToM), the Faux Pas Recognition Test (FPRT), anxiety/depression, positive and negative affect and alexithymia

From: Examining differences in cognitive and affective theory of mind between persons with high and low extent of somatic symptoms: an experimental study

 

HSR (n = 29)

LSR (n = 21)

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Emotional Awareness

 ECQ-Emotion Self

3.44

0.68

3.89

0.62

 ECQ-Emotion Other

3.87

0.42

3.80

0.45

ERaToM

(n = 29)

(n = 20)

 Emotion Recognition (max 30)

21.17

3.19

21.14

3.03

 Affective Theory of Mind (max 30)

20.66

2.58

19.92

3.93

FPRT

(n = 28)

(n = 21)

 Faux pas stories

  Detection (max 20)

15.32

4.01

16.24

3.83

  Understanding (max 30)

15.68

6.06

17.90

5.68

  Emotion (max 10)

4.86

2.52

3.95

2.91

  Control (max 20)

19.32

1.09

19.43

1.16

 Control stories without a faux pas

(n = 28)

(n = 21)

  Decline (max 20)

18.07

2.28

18.48

1.99

  Control (max 21)

20.11

1.26

20.24

0.99

Alexithymia

 TAS-26 sum score

2.52

0.61

2.12

0.42

Anxiety/Depression

    

 HADS sum score

14.86

7.69

7.05

4.51

Affect

    

 PANAS-pos

31.45

6.40

37.81

7.41

 PANAS-neg

23.97

7.01

17.33

6.24

  1. The maximum achievable points concerning the ERaToM and FPRT are stated in brackets; due to technical problems, the log file of the ERaToM of one participant was corrupted and the data for the FPRT of another participant was missing. Thus, for both paradigms the sample size is N = 49; HSR high symptom reporter, LSR low symptom reporter, ECQ Emotional Competence Questionnaire, HADS Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, TAS-26 Toronto Alexithymia Scale, PANAS Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, pos positive affect, neg negative affect