Results for aversive memories, state anxiety, and SCL during the memory triggering task.

Note: cond.: condition; IMQ number: number of aversive memories (“How often did memories (pictures or thoughts) of violence scenes pop into your mind during the last part of the experiment (the last 3 minutes)?”); IMQ duration: duration of aversive memories in % of total time of the respective condition (“How many percent of the time have you been mentally engaged with memories (pictures or thoughts) of the violence scenes during the last part of the experiment (the last 3 minutes)?”); IMQ distress: distress elicited by aversive memories, scale 0–100; 0 = not distressing at all, 100 = extremely distressing (“How distressing did you find these memories of the violence scenes during the last part of the experiment (the last 3 minutes)?”); state anxiety: assessed by STAI state scale; SCL: skin conductance level given as ln(1+SCL) in µS.
*significant main effect of condition at p<.05.
1 2 3Different number superscripts indicate that conditions significantly differ from each other at p<.05 in post-hoc tests.
aValues represent sum scores of the IMQ in T-scores.
bF(2,116).
cF(2,114).