Table 3: Subjective Measures of Psychopathology, Mood and Cognition for the CFS and Control Samples. Scores are the Group Means with s.e.m in Parenthesis

CFS (N=307) Controls (N=126) F, df, p
Psychopathology, Mood and Cognition:
Depression (↑scores=↑dep.) 41.46
(0.61)		 35.07
(0.48)		 41.58, 1 424, 0.001
Trait Anxiety (↑scores=↑anx.) 49.36
(0.66)		 40.45
(0.97)		 55.50, 1 421, 0.001
Mood:
Alertness
(↑scores=↑alert.)
Hedonic tone
(↑scores=↑HT)
Anxiety
(↓scores=↑anx.)
188.73
(1.35)
122.78
(1.15)
74.15
(1.04)
290.27
(6.00)
234.17
(4.10)
105.29
(2.67)
536.70, 1 431, 0.001
1227.05, 1 431, 0.001
174.23, 1 431, 0.001
Positive Mood
(↑scores=↑pos. md)
Negative Mood (↑scores=↑neg. md)		 25.88
(0.56)
23.95
(0.66)		 36.05
(0.82)
14.14
(0.85)		 98.16, 1 424, 0.001
71.44, 1 425, 0.001
Cognitive Failures(↑scores=↑CF) 60.53
(1.03)		 38.35 (1.17) 156.00, 1 419, 0.001