. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 2.

Published in final edited form as: J Posit Psychol. 2009;4(2):105–127. doi: 10.1080/17439760802650519

Table 2.

Study 1: Motivation codes by condition.

Motivation codes	Elevation	Gratitude	Admiration	Joy
Positive relationship^†
Enhancement (r₁ = 0.56, R = 0.79)	44^a	29^a	57^a	05^b
Acknowledgment (r₁ = 0.69, R = 0.87)	22^b	61^a	33^b	05^b
Reward/repayment (r₁ = 0.72, R = 0.88)	07^b	39^a	10^b	05^b
Affiliation (r₁ = 0.59, R = 0.81)	11	13	00	20
TOTAL (reported any of above 4 codes)	67^a	74^a	81^a	30^b
Moral
Prosocial (r₁ = 0.58, R = 0.73)	43^a	05^b	04^b	03^b
Emulate⁺ (r₁ = 0.72, R = 0.89)	67^a	19^b	33^b	00^c
Moral self-improvement (r₁ = 0.42, R = 0.69)	17^a	08^ab	20^a	00^b
TOTAL (reported any of above 3 codes)	71^a	24^b	52^a	03^c
Expend energy
Broadcast (r₁ = 0.75, R = 0.90)	03^b	11^b	12^b	81^a
Celebrate (r₁ = 0.71, R = 0.88)	06^b	11^b	32^a	57^a
TOTAL (reported either of above 2 codes)	09^c	18^c	36^b	89^a

Note: N = 135, unless noted; tested using logistic regression with joy as the reference variable (unless 0, then only the following); followed with Mann-Whitney U-test between each of the other-praising emotion conditions to test the second hypothesis. Sex of participant is included as an independent variable in all analyses. Letters next to the means indicate significant differences between conditions, p≤0.05. Bold indicates the highest two percentages (for individual codes) in each condition (additional bold text was used when a third percentage was just one number less).

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Percentages for these codes were based on the sample of participants who indicated that another person had been responsible for their feelings, N = 99.