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Table 3 Group differences in emotional expression

From: Alexithymia, but not autism spectrum disorder, may be related to the production of emotional facial expressions

 

NT (n = 17)

Mean (SE)

ASD (n = 17)

Mean (SE)

Partial eta squared

p value

Observed power

Positive

11.41 (12.11)

8.41 (8.51)

.021

.409

.128

Negative

47.81 (21.07)

60.19 (31.79)

.053

.191

.255

Neutral

.481 (0.10)

.601 (0.19)

.150

.024

.633

  1. The means for negative and positive emotion represent the percentages of time each emotion category which was detected by FACET at the 105 threshold level. The neutral variable was transformed to normalize the distribution and the means do not reflect percentages