showed a trendp = 0.059
Model-based follow-up analyses showed a trend for children diagnosed with SAD to report lower self-ratings of gaze behavior than the HC group in S1, t (86.72) = − 1.916, p = 0.059, d = 0.46, 95% CI [− 0.09, 1.01], and significantly lower self-ratings of gaze behavior than the HC group in S2, t (86.72) = − 4.037, p < 0.001, d = 1.28, 95% CI [0.69, 1.88].