Oral but not written test anxiety is related to social anxiety

Table 1 Description of full and partial responders

	Complete responders (n = 99)1		Partial responders (n = 22)2		χ2 test
	n	%	n	%
Sex					0.290
Males	25	26	8	36.4
Females	74	74	14	63.6
Age (M, SD)	22.9 (3.6)		23.0 (2.6)		0.573
Branch of study					0.297
Mechanical engineering	9	9.4	2	9.1
Psychology	32	33.3	6	27.3
Sociology	5	5.2	4	18.2
Medicine	34	35.4	6	27.3
Architecture	6	6.3	1	4.5
Biology	7	7.3	1	4.5
Other	6	6.3	2	9.1
Degree of study					0.814
Diploma	31	32.3	7	31.8
Bachelor	33	34.4	9	40.9
Master	2	2.1	0	0.0
State exam	33	34.4	6	27.3
Number of days since last exam
Written exam (M, SD)	51.1 (69.0)		51.3 (63.5)		0.920
Oral exam (M, SD)	253.7 (342.8)		406.1 (518.5)		0.468
Probable social anxiety disorder
SSQ	14	14.1	5	22.7	0.317
LSAS-anxiety (M, SD)	15.6 (10.5)		13.0 (10.0)		0.366
LSAS-avoidance (M, SD)	13.6 (10.2)		11.9 (12.1)		0.574
Probable test-anxiety
Written exam LSAS-anxiety (M, SD)	1.1 (0.8)		0.9 (0.8)		0.804
Written exam LSAS-avoidance (M, SD)	0.2 (0.6)		0.3 (0.6)		0.550
Oral exam LSAS-anxiety (M, SD)	1.8 (1.0)		1.5 (1.1)		0.566
Oral exam LSAS-avoidance (M, SD)	0.2 (0.6)		0.3 (0.9)		0.619

¹Data of additional 3 participants were not used since they did not report any fear or avoidance of social situations and thus were not asked about trigger events, test anxiety, cognitions, behavior, depersonalization and physical symptoms due to skip rules;

²Data of additional 14 participants were not used since they did not give written informed consent. M: Mean; SD: Standard deviation; SSQ: Symptom screening questionnaire; LSAS: Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (subscales for severity of social anxiety and avoidance of social situations).