Research Article

Dissociable Self Effects for Emotion Regulation: A Study of Chinese Major Depressive Outpatients

Table 1

Demographic and clinical data of MDD and normal control groups.

MeasureMDDControlSig.
Mean/SD Mean/SD

Gender ratio (male/female)5/77/80.55
Age29.50 (8.46)25.80 (5.89)0.07
Years of education14.00 (3.77)14.80 (2.83)0.53
Handednessright (12)right (15)
BDI26.17 (12.65)4.27 (4.23)0.00
SDS64.08 (12.60)36.54 (5.74)0.00
HAMD25.23 (4.97)     

Note: BDI: beck depression inventory; SDS: self-rating depression scale. Both groups were matched for age, sex ratio, and years of education.