Examination Stress Results in Attentional Bias and Altered Neural Reactivity in Test-Anxious Individuals

Table 2

Bias scores in the dot-probe task for HTA and LTA participants.

	Test-related threatening word		Test-unrelated threatening word
	Mean (SD)	t-test^a	Mean (SD)	t-test^a
HTA group ()	12.98 (19.02)	3.20	1.22 (16.83)	.34
LTA group ()	−10.27 (12.70)	−3.88	−.18 (13.59)	−.07

^aResults from a one-sample t-test between bias scores and zero ().