. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2011 Aug 15;27(2):305–317. doi: 10.1037/a0024959

Table 2.

Intercorrelations of Key Study Variables

	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.	9.
1. Anger^a	-
2. Sadness^a	.12	-
3. Age	−.05	.13	-
4. Physiological activation^a	−.13	.03	.20^**	-
5. Pre-film anger	.26^***	.10	−.11	−.11	-
6. Pre-film sadness	.18^**	.31^***	−.06	−.01	.58^***	-
7. Female gender	−.13	−.04	.02	.04	−.02	−.01	-
8. Satisfaction with life	.08	−.02	.02	.05	−.04	−.14^*	.15^*	-
9. Ratio of positive to negative affect	.01	−.04	.06	−.03	−.10	−.22^**	.14	.44^***	-

Note.

Self-reported anger, self-reported sadness, and physiological activation in response to the emotionally-neutral, thematically-ambiguous film.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.