The relationship between emotional intelligence and task-switching in temporal lobe epilepsy

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Table 1

Demographic information for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and control group.

Variables	Patients (n=25)	Control (n=25)
Age at the time of testing mean± SD (min-max)	35±0.50 (20.00-35.00)	34.50±0.62 (20.00-35.00)
Age at epilepsy onset	30 (0.40)
Gender, n (%)
Female	13 (52)	13.0 (52)
Male	12 (48)	12.0 (48)
Economic status, n (%)
Lower	Nil	Nil
Middle	14 (56)	15.0 (60)
Higher	11 (44)	10.0 (40)
Education, n (%)
Primary	Nil	Nil
Secondary	15 (60)	14.0 (56)
Higher	10 (40)	11.0 (44)
Epilepsy onset, n (%)
Right Frontal	12 (48)	Nil
Left Frontal	13 (52)	Nil
Seizure frequency per month	12 (1.20)	Nil
Laterality n (%)
Right focal abnormality n (%)	11 (52)
Left focal abnormality n (%)	12 (48)
Bilateral n (%)	2 (8)
WAIS Full IQ	100.2 (2.68)	101.1 (2.15)^{^†}
DASS Depression	4.60 (1.80)^*	5.84 (2.09)^*
DASS Anxiety	3.60 (1.43)^*	4.30 (1.36)^*
DASS Stress	2.34 (0.88)^*	2.08 (0.94)^*
EI	77.84 (15.17)	101.0 (8.66)^{^‡}

WAIS - wechsler adult intelligence scale, DASS - depression, anxiety and stress scale, EI - emotional intelligence,
↵* normal,
↵† t (24)= 1.48, p=0.15,
↵‡ t (24)= 50.14, p<0.001