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Table 1 Demographic variables of the four groups

From: Euthymic patients with predominantly manic polarity avoid happy faces in a dot probe task

 

BP-acute-D

(N = 20)

BP-euth-D

(N = 19)

BP-euth-M

(N = 13)

HC

(N = 20)

χ2/

F

p

Post-hoc

tests

Sex (n)

    

.13

.988

–

 Female

10

9

7

10

   

 Male

10

10

6

10

   

Handedness (n)

    

2.72

1

–

 Right

18

17

12

18

   

 Left

2

1

1

1

   

 Relearned left

0

1

0

1

   

Age (M, SD)

43.9 (15.8)

47.4 (13.4)

46.5 (10.2)

44.0 (15.1)

.31

.822

–

School years (Mdn, IQR)

10.0 (3.5)

13.0 (3.0)

10.0 (2.5)

12.5 (3.0)

4.08

.253

–

IQa verbal (Mdn, IQR)

100.0 (10.0)

104.0 (24.0)

104.0 (20.0)

112.0 (16.0)

9.54

.023*

BP-acute-D < HC (z = 2.93, p = 0.02)b

  1. BP-acute-D patients in an acute depressive phase, BP-euth-D euthymic patients with a predominant depressive polarity, BP-euth-M euthymic patients with a predominant manic polarity, HC healthy controls
  2. aMultiple-choice-vocabulary-test-B (Mehrfachwahl-Wortschatz-Intelligenztest; MWT-B)
  3. bDunn-Bonferroni-Tests with adjustment for multiple comparisons
  4. *p<0.05