Table 2.

Correlations among positive, negative, and competitive social events and cytokine levels

	Positive social events	Negative social events	Competitive social events	Baseline IL-6	IL-6 25-min poststressor	IL-6 80-min poststressor	Baseline sTNFαRII	sTNFαRII 25-min poststressor	sTNFαRII 80-min poststressor
Positive social events		0.414**	0.181*	−0.001	0.071	0.073	0.019	0.081	0.007
Negative social events			0.473**	0.066	0.178	0.095	0.214*	0.250**	196*
Competitive social events				0.175	0.159	0.208*	0.204*	0.201*	0.200*
Baseline IL-6					0.743**	0.823**	0.507**	0.418**	0.488**
IL-6 25-min poststressor						0.803**	0.564**	0.633**	0.579**
IL-6 80-min poststressor							0.418**	0.404**	0.541**
Baseline sTNFαRII								0.757**	0.760**
sTNFαRII 25-min poststressor									0.813**
sTNFαRII 80-min poststressor

*P < 0.05;

**P ≤ 0.01.