Table 5.

Mean Comparisons of Process Models by Trial.

	Men’s issue	Women’s issue	t
T1 Anger, Affect Clusters, and Affect Ratios
Men’s anger	3.6 (8.6)	4.8 (10.1)	−1.17
Women’s anger	6.5 (13.2)	8.3 (15.2)	−1.30
Men’s low-intensity negativity	51.0 (55.6)	52.9 (62.8)	−0.39
Women’s low-intensity negativity	66.1 (60.2)	85.8 (67.6)	−3.20**
Men’s high-intensity negativity	21.2 (21.1)	29.8 (28.2)	−2.76**
Women’s high-intensity negativity	26.3 (26.2)	24.1 (20.4)	0.87
Men’s positive affect	34.8 (27.7)	36.9 (32.2)	−0.74
Women’s positive affect	38.9 (31.8)	31.8 (28.4)	2.77**
Men’s positive/positive + negative affect	0.4 (0.3)	0.4 (0.3)	1.13
Women’s positive/positive + negative affect	0.4 (0.4)	0.3 (0.3)	3.20**
T1 Affect Sequences
Men’s reciprocity of low-intensity negativity	10.6 (16.6)	13.6 (23.7)	−1.52
Women’s reciprocity of low-intensity negativity	10.3 (15.7)	14.1 (24.1)	−2.01*
Men’s reciprocity of high-intensity negativity	2.5 (4.8)	2.3 (3.7)	.49
Women’s reciprocity of high-intensity negativity	2.5 (4.6)	2.2 (3.6)	.12
Men’s negative escalation	4.9 (6.9)	7.3 (10.0)	−2.37*
Women’s negative escalation	4.8 (8.9)	3.7 (5.4)	1.58
Men’s negative start up	44.6 (43.3)	50.2 (43.5)	−1.40
Women’s negative start up	62.2 (48.6)	74.8 (54.0)	−2.81**
Men’s deescalation of low-intensity negativity	44.9 (42.9)	58.9 (48.4)	−2.93**
Women’s deescalation of low-intensity negativity	32.0 (37.7)	31.0 (37.9)	0.30
Men’s deescalation of high-intensity negativity	17.0 (15.7)	16.1 (14.5)	0.45
Women’s deescalation of high-intensity negativity	12.0 (12.3)	17.5 (18.9)	−2.59*

N = 85.

^*p < .05.

^**p < .01.