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Table 2 List of selected studies

From: Are mental disorders related to disbelief in free will? A systematic review

 

Ent, 2014 [1]

Vonasch, 2017 [2]

van der Salm, 2017 [3]

Country

USA

USA

NL

Exposures (N)

PD (23), epilepsy (16)

Addiction—alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and activities (not available)

Tics (17), FMD (28), myoclonus (15)

Exposure determination

Formally diagnosed (self-report)

Yes/no questions about personal history of addiction

Standardized clinical assessment [6]

Exposure recruitment settings

Online (Mechanical Turk)

Online (Mechanical Turk)

Clinical setting

Control determination (N)

None (35)

Yes/no questions about personal history of addiction (not available)

Unknown (22)

Control recruitment settings

Online (Mechanical Turk)

Online (Mechanical Turk)

Unknown

Sociodemographic characteristics [age (mean, SD); gender (frequency—N of female)]

PD [age: not available; gender: 17]

Epilepsy [age: not available; gender: 6]

Control [age: not available; gender: 21]

Unknown

Unknown

 

Average age of all participants, 32.71

  

Outcome assessment tool

FWDS [4] (G: range 14–70; P: range 8–40)

FWDS [4] (G: range 14–70; P: range 8–40)

FAD [5] (free will subscale range 7–35)

Outcome results (mean, SD)

PD [G: 55.91 (8.50); P: not available]

Epilepsy [G: 52.63 (11.72); P: 29.50 (6.71)]

Control [G: 59.97 (6.69); P: 32.57 (4.24)]

ALC [G: 42.64 (1.31)a; P: 25.05 (0.63)a]

TOB [not availableb]

ODA [G: 43.51 (1.42)a; P: 24.97 (0.67)a]

ALC control [G: 47.43 (0.73)a; P: 26.76 (0.34)a]

TOB control [not availableb]

ODA control [G: 47.02 (0.73)a; P: 26.72 (0.34)a]

Tics [26.4 (4.1)]

FMD [26.3 (2.6)]

Myoclonus [24.9 (3.6)]

Control [25.4 (3.8)]

Type of study

Cross-sectional

Cross-sectional

Cross-sectional

  1. aStandard error
  2. bData not shown by the authors since there were no significant differences in their analysis
  3. [1]Ent and Baumeister 2014 [39]
  4. [2]Vonasch, Clark, Lau, Vohs, and Baumeister 2017 [40]
  5. [3]van der Salm et al. 2017 [41]
  6. [4]Rakos, Laurene, Skala, and Slane 2008 [10]
  7. [5]Paulhus and Margesson 1994 [42]
  8. [6]van der Salm et al. 2013 [43]