Table 2: Reductions in stress reactivity during acute stress.
Intervention | Waitlist control | ANOVA | |||||||
Pre-test | Post-test | Paired t-test | Pre-test | Post-test | Paired t-test | ||||
Measure | M (sd) | M (sd) | P | M (sd) | M (sd) | P | F | P | d |
Subjective stress & anxiety (1–140 scale) |
54.10 (31.98) | 25.32 (17.34) | .002 | 56.55 (26.61) | 45.83 (24.06) | .04 | 4.07 | .05 | 0.70 |
3rd party rating of discomfort (judges) (1–10 scale) |
5.35 (1.11) | 3.70 (0.88) | .000 | 5.26 (1.40) | 4.78 (1.27) | .24 | 5.98 | .027 | 0.81 |
3rd party rating of anxiety (coders) (1–10 scale) |
2.94 (0.81) | 2.24 (0.73) | .000 | 3.03 (1.13) | 3.08 (1.53) | .85 | 5.15 | .03 | 0.79 |
3rd party rating of stress behaviors (# of occurrences) |
33.74 (6.53) | 24.47 (14.33) | .012 | 38.81 (11.75) | 40.70 (14.45) | .43 | 7.83 | .008 | 0.97 |
F and P values are computed from a mixed-model ANOVA with condition and pre-test/post-test as factors. |