Table 3.
Correlations between individual differences variables and components of trade-off in emotional memory
| Test | specific recognition |
general recognition |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| items | backgrounds | items | backgrounds | |||
| Anxiety Measures | ||||||
| Beck Anxiety Inventory, past month (BAI-M) | r | 0.15 | −0.37 | −0.01 | −0.13 | |
| (Beck et al., 1988) | p | 0.22 | **.003 | 0.96 | 0.32 | |
| Beck Anxiety Inventory, post-study (BAI-S) | 0.18 | −0.24 | 0.16 | −0.01 | ||
| (Beck et al., 1988) | 0.16 | 0.06 | 0.21 | 0.95 | ||
| Visuospatial Working Memory | ||||||
| Spatial Span, backwards (SS) | −0.14 | 0.32 | 0.27 | 0.14 | ||
| (Wechsler, 1997) | 0.27 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.28 | ||
| Visual Working Memory | ||||||
| Self-Ordered Pointing, total number of errors (SOP-E) | −0.02 | 0.01 | −0.18 | 0.12 | ||
| (Petrides & Milner, 1982) | 0.91 | 0.96 | 0.16 | 0.34 | ||
| Self-Ordered Pointing, number of trials with errors (SOP-T) | −0.09 | 0.00 | −0.18 | 0.01 | ||
| (Petrides & Milner, 1982) | 0.49 | 0.98 | 0.17 | 0.93 | ||
| Executive Function | ||||||
| Verbal fluency, number of perseverations (VF #) | 0.39 | −0.42 | 0.31 | −0.28 | ||
| (Monsch et al., 1992) | **.001 | **.001 | 0.01 | 0.02 | ||
| Verbal fluency, percentage of perseverations (VF %) | 0.38 | −0.41 | 0.32 | −0.30 | ||
| (Monsch et al., 1992) | **.002 | **.001 | 0.01 | 0.02 | ||
| Disexecutive questionnaire (DEX) | 0.34 | −0.20 | 0.34 | 0.01 | ||
| (Wilson et al., 1996) | **.006 | 0.12 | **.006 | 0.94 | ||
Trade-off in memory calculated separately for items and backgrounds as emotional minus neutral scene element
**
indicates significant at threshold of p=.006, when applying Bonferroni correction.