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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Emotion. 2011 Aug;11(4):807–815. doi: 10.1037/a0022010

Table 1.

Study 1: Rows 2 and 3: Descriptives and αs of trait hedonic balance, subjective well-being, psychological well-being, and depression symptoms. Row 4: Main effects of stress level on trait hedonic balance, subjective well-being, psychological well-being, and depression symptoms. Row 5: Main effects of valuing happiness. Row 6: Interaction between valuing happiness and stress level. Rows 7–8: Summary of simple slopes analyses decomposing the interactions.

Hedonic Balance Subjective Well-Being Psychological Well-Being Depression Symptoms
Means (SD) 1.88 (.94) 3.92 (1.57) 4.53 (.80) 17.0 (10.9)
α .92 .90 .87 .85
Standardized βs of main effects of stress −.60*** −.55*** −.57***
Standardized βs of main effects of valuing happiness −.39** −.33** −.43*** .30*
Standardized βs of interactions between valuing happiness and stress .45** .32* .38** −.41**
Simple slopes analyses:Standardized βs of effects of valuing happiness at each level of stress Low stress −.75*** −.60** −.76*** .59**
High stress .05 −.03 −.09 −.13

Note. N=59,

*

p<.05,

**

p<.01,

***

p<.001