Skip to main content

Psychology: Research and Review

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for psychosocial measures and HRV

From: Decreased self-reported receiving of social touch and social support predict loneliness in healthy adults

Psychological measures

n

Minimum

Maximum

Mean

SD

Gender (female-male)

60-60

    

Age (years)

120

18.0

28.0

21.9

2.2

PSQ score

120

0.0

7.0

3.3

2.1

Loneliness score

120

18.0

58.0

30.9

7.3

Social support score

120

42.1

100.0

81.8

13.0

Receiving touch score

120

14.0

75.0

35.2

14.5

Giving touch score

120

14.0

90.0

38.2

15.8

HRV

n

Minimum

Maximum

Median

P25–75

SDNN (ms)

103

16.1

111.8

55.4

40.7–71.0

RMSSD (ms)

103

8.1

130.7

43.9

30.6–67.4

HF (ms2)

103

6.3

1416.1

216.9

96.8–509.5

LF (ms2)

103

28.3

1196.1

290.4

125.2–470.0

  1. PSQ Psychiatric Screening Questionnaire, HRV heart rate variability, SDNN standard deviation of the NN interval, RMSSD root mean square of successive differences, HF high-frequency component, LF low-frequency component