So, a total of 24 (10 males) high optimistic and 24 (14 males) high pessimistic individuals were included in the final analysis.
Differences of ASF slopes between high optimistic and high pessimistic groups were compared by one-way analyses of variance (ANOVA), controlling for the effect of gender.
When only high optimistic or pessimistic subjects were considered, no significant correlations were found between the OPS-C scores and any ASF-slopes of N1, P2, or N1/P2.
There were no significant differences between high optimistic and pessimistic groups with regard to gender, age, SDS, and SAS score (see Table 1).
Our results suggest that the serotonergic neurotransmission of the high optimistic college students was inferior to that of the pessimistic ones.
The amplitudes and amplitude-stimulus intensity function (ASF) slopes of the N1, P2, and N1/P2 peaks were determined in the 24 (10 males) high optimistic and 24 (14 males) high pessimistic individuals.
For the purposes of this study, participants whose total OPS-C scores fell into the top 16% (above 100) were defined as high optimistic, while those whose total scores fell in the bottom 16% (below 90) were defined as high pessimistic.
One-way ANOVA showed that P2 ASF slope was significantly higher in optimistic group than that in pessimistic group (with F 1,45) = 5.07, P = 0.029) (see Table 2 and Figure 1).
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