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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Emotion. 2008 Jun;8(3):425–429. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.3.425

Table 2.

Relationship Outcomes and Estimates for Predicting Them From Little Sister Gratitude Ratings

Little Sisters
Big Sisters
Descriptive statistic α M SD α M SD
Revelations: Integration with sorority 4.88 1.21 4.97 1.05
Revelations: Interaction evaluation .91 6.14 0.85 .89 5.20 0.60
Follow-up: Relationship quality .95 3.73 1.15 .94 3.81 0.67
Follow-up: Time with sister (hours) 2.06 2.33 2.66 2.46

Analysis estimate B p d B p d

Revelations: Integration with sorority 0.42 .04 0.68 0.25 .24 0.43
Revelations: Interaction evaluation 0.32 .02 0.75 0.26 .02 0.85
Follow-up: Relationship quality 0.56 .003 1.04 0.23 .10 0.64
Follow-up: Time with sister (hours) −0.14 .74 0.11 0.91 .08 0.68

Note. Scales ranged from 0 (e.g., none or not at all) to 6 (e.g., extremely), except estimated hours spent with sister in previous week. Estimates of outcomes were included only if matched with a Little Sister who reported at least 6 of her events during Big Sister Week. Little Sisters: n = 41 (Revelations), n = 39 (follow-up); estimates include only Little Sisters who had one Big Sister. Big Sisters: n = 33 (Revelations), n = 30 (follow-up). In the lower half of the table, bold type represents effects that were significant at p < .05 or marginally significant at p ≤ .10.