Table 3 Descriptive results of female and male participants on the ABaCo’s scales, and ABACo total score, and results of t-tests

Linguistic

  YA

.89 (.09)

.85(.10)

18

1.055

.305

  OA

.79 (.08)

.81 (.12)

18

-.501

.622

  SOA

.82 (.04)

.78 (.09)

18

1.243

.230

Extralinguistic

  YA

.80 (.09)

.80 (.11)

18

.009

.993

  OA

.61 (.09)

.68 (.15)

18

-1.243

.230

  SOA

.64 (.20)

.67 (.09)

18

-.434

.670

Paralinguistic

  YA

.89 (.05)

.87 (.09)

18

.782

.444

  OA

.74 (.08)

.80 (.15)

18

-.976

.342

  SOA^a

.79 (.17)

.70 (.06)

11.374

1.587

.140

Contextual

  YA

.95 (.06)

.90 (.09)

18

1.407

.177

  OA

.85 (.08)

.84 (.18)

18

.181

.859

  SOA

.86 (.07)

.78 (.10)

18

2.077

.052

Conversational

  YA

.99 (.03)

.98 (.04)

18

.896

.382

  OA^a

1.00 (.00)

.98 (.08)

9.000

1.000

.343

  SOA

.98 (.07)

.96 (.10)

18

.545

.592

ABaCo total score

  YA

.88 (.04)

.85 (.08)

18

1.020

.321

  OA^a

.75 (.06)

.78 (.12)

13.831

-.790

.443

  SOA^a

.78 (.10)

.73 (.04)

11.027

1.315

.215