. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Pers Soc Psychol. 2010 Apr;98(4):587–604. doi: 10.1037/a0017479

Table 3.

Correlations among Independent Variables.

	Study 1
	Problem Severity	Commands	Blames	Rejections	Indirect Hostility
Problem Severity	.38^**	.07	.29^*	.31^**	.19
Commands	.13	.27^*	.32^**	.11	.48^**
Blames	.14	.55^***	.49^***	.34^**	.54^***
Rejections	−.01	.42^***	.34^**	.44^**	.41^**
Indirect Hostility	.12	.55^***	.48^***	.38^**	.74^***

	Study 2
	Problem Severity	Commands	Blames	Rejections	Indirect Hostility
Initial Problem Severity	.36^**	.11	.27^**	.23^**	.16^†
Commands	−.05	.11	.30^***	.09	.11
Blames	.02	.32^**	.31^***	.40^**	.43^***
Rejections	−.02	.16^†	.18^*	.11	.23^**
Indirect Hostility	−.06	.13	.32^**	.28^**	.40^***

Note. Wives’ correlations appear above the diagonal, husbands’ correlations appear below the diagonal, and correlations between husbands and wives appear on the diagonal in bold.

^†

p < .10,

p < .05,

^**

p < .01,

^***

p < .001