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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pers Soc Psychol. 2012 Dec 31;104(4):734–749. doi: 10.1037/a0031180

Table 3.

Correlations among measures of affect.

Trait negative affect
(T1)
Negative affective reactivity
(T2)
Daily negative affect
(T3)
Trait negative affect
(T4)
Prospective
negative affect (T4
controlling for T1)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Trait negative affect (T1)
    1. Trait anger
    2. Trait anxiety .47*
    3. Trait sadness .49* .50*

Negative affective reactivity (T2)
    4. Experiential anger reactivity .16* .13* .10
    5. Experiential anxiety reactivity .15* .15* .14* .41*
    6. Experiential sadness reactivity −.02 .07 .14* .45* .44*
    7. Physiological reactivity −.01 .03 .03 .13 .08 −.02

Daily negative affect (T3)
    8. Daily anger .44* .34 .28* .18* .11 .06 .02
    9. Daily anxiety .30* .43* .39* .23* .16* .15* −.03 .55*
    10. Daily sadness .35* .37* .36* .12 .07 .15* −.09 .66* .70*

Trait negative affect (T4)
    11. Trait anger .54* .30* .33* .16* .10 −.04 −.02 .48* .30* .35*
    12. Trait anxiety .39* .62* .44* .19* .21* .03 −.04 .46* .49* .45* .49*
    13. Trait sadness .39* .35* .44* .16* .12 .03 .11 .42* .42* .47* .70* .54*

Prospective negative affect (T4
controlling for T1)
    14. Prospective trait anger .01 .04 .06 .10 .05 −.02 .01 .29* .15* .16* .85* .34* .59*
    15. Prospective trait anxiety .10 .01 .12 .10 .11 −.02 −.03 .30* .28* .25* .39* .79* .41* .40*
    16. Prospective trait sadness .17* .12 .00 .13 .04 −.04 .13 .33* .27* .35* .61* .39* .90* .62* .40

Note:

*

p < .05.