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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Psychophysiol. 2011 Feb 21;80(2):87–95. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.02.002

Table 3.

Intercorrelations of electrodermal measures.

Electrodermal measures SCL SCLstd NSF (number) NSF (amplitude) SCLstd/SCL (coefficient of SC variation)
SCL Between-S W1: 0.9** W1: 0.9** W1: 0.7** W1: 0.3*
S: 0.8** S: 0.8** S: 0.1 S: −0.7**
Within-S W2: 0.9** W2: 0.8** W2: 0.6** W2: 0.2

SCLstd W1: 11.1*** Between-S W1: 0.9** W1: 0.9** W1: 0.7**
S: 3.7*** S: 0.9** S: 0.2 S: −0.2
W2: 12.0*** Within-S W2: 0.9** W2: 0.8** W2: 0.6**

NSF (number) W1: 8.1*** W1: 8.7*** Between-S W1: 0.7** W1: 0.6**
S: 4.0*** S: 4.7*** S: 0.2 S: −0.3*
W2: 8.0*** W2: 8.9*** Within-S W2: 0.6** W2: 0.5**

NSF (amplitude) W1: 3.3*** W1: 12.6*** W1: 1.9*** Between-S W1: 0.8**
S: 2.3*** S: 4.2*** S: 1.3*** S: −0.0
W2: 2.6*** W2: 8.0*** W2: 1.7*** Within-S W2: 0.7**

SCLstd/SCL (coefficient of SC variation) W1: 4.9*** W1: 9.3*** W1: 9.3*** W1: 12.8*** Between-S
S: 0.8** S: 6.0*** S: 3.2*** S: 4.0***
W2: 5.1*** W2: 9.2*** W2: 7.5*** W2: 6.7*** Within-S

Note. Between-subjects correlations represent Spearman’s rho correlation coefficients, within-subject values represent Cohen’s d effect sizes (based on t statistics and degrees of freedom from testing Fisher’s z-transformed correlation coefficients);

*

p-value<0.05,

**

p-value<0.01,

***

p-value <0.005;

Abbreviations. SCL, skin conductance level; SCLstd, SCL standard deviation; NSF, non-specific fluctuations; Within-S, within-subject correlations; Between-S, between-subjects correlations; W1, Waking on day 1; W2, Waking on day 2; S, Sleeping.