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Table 3 Behavioral data

From: State or trait: the neurobiology of anorexia nervosa — contributions of a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

 

AN

REC

NP

ANOVA F(df); p

post-hoc Tukey test *

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Food images

Valence

3.70

1.85

5.20

1.36

6.28

1.43

17.98 (2); < 0.001

NP,REC > AN

Arousal

4.69

2.16

2.94

1.68

3.19

1.61

6.518(2); < 0.01

AN > NP,REC

Dominance

5.23

2.16

5.75

1.11

5.28

5.34

0.643 (2); 0.529

Non-food images

Valence

4.91

1.59

5.23

0.82

5.04

1.46

0.289 (2); 0.75

Arousal

3.07

1.71

2.24

1.45

2.92

1.50

1.638 (2); 0.202

Dominance

5.70

1.49

5.62

0.73

5.34

1.13

  1. 0 = negative valence to 8 = positive valence, 0 = unaroused to 8 = very aroused, 0 = not dominant to 8 = very dominant. AN anorexia nervosa, NP non-patients, REC recovered AN
  2. *p < 0.05 (cf. [45])