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Table 1 Participants’ gender and age, familiarity and realism of situation and manipulation check as a function of experimental condition (χ2(1, N = 220) = 0.44,p = 0.21)

From: “Studying cognitive reappraisal as an antidote to the effect of negative emotions on medical residents’ learning: a randomized experiment”

 

Neutral (N)

(N = 31)

Emotional-without-antidote (E)

(N = 34)

Emotional-with-antidote (E-CR)

(N = 34)

Statistics

Sex (N, %)

   

χ2(2, N = 99) = 0.348, p = 0.840

Male

21 (68)

23 (68)

21 (62)

Female

10 (32)

11 (32)

13 (38)

Age (years),

Mean (SD)a

25.52 (3.46)

25.32 (1.85)

25.44 (1.86)

F(2, 96) = 0.050, p = 0.951

Familiar with the situation described in the video, N (%)

15 (48)

20 (59)

22 (65)

χ2(2, N = 99) = 1.80, p = 0.406

Realism of videob, Mean (SD)

3.77 (0.76)

3.88 (0.73)

3.79 (0.88)

F(2, 96) = 0.174, p = 0.840

Perception of resident’s emotionsb, Mean (SD)

4.41 (0.37)

4.81 (0.27)

4.88 (0.22)

F(2, 96) = 25.80, p < 0.001

N x E p < 0.001

N x E-CR p < 0.001

E-CR x E p = 0.63

PANAS scaleb

Mean (SD)

2.77 (0.63)

3.40 (0.78)

3.56 (0.82)

F(2, 96) = 9.87, p < 0.001

N x E p = 0.003

N x E_CR p < 0.001

E-CR x E p = 0.75

  1. * age ranged from 21 to 42 years
  2. a SD = standard deviation
  3. b range = 1 – 5