Table 1.

Wives’ and Husbands’ Cortisol Values at Specific Sampling Points across Two Days: Descriptive Statistics (untransformed, µg/dl), Spousal Presence, and Intercorrelations

Sample	% samples complete data		Wives			Husbands		Wife- Husband Correlation
		M	SD	% with spouse	M	SD	% with spouse	r
1 (wakeup)	78.7	0.52	0.29	37.0	0.55	0.34	42.6	−.27†
2 (CAR)	68.1	0.61	0.29	31.5	0.69	0.35	24.1	.02
3	70.2	0.22	0.17	4.9	0.24	0.16	6.1	.00
4	53.2	0.18	0.11	4.1	0.22	0.24	4.1	.19†
5	46.8	0.12	0.05	8.1	0.16	0.19	8.3	−.10
6	42.6	0.08	0.07	40.3	0.11	0.10	38.1	.33**
7 (bedtime)	25.5	0.06	0.04	50.8	0.13	0.29	47.5	−.07

Note. Results are based on 47 wife-husband dyads. CAR = cortisol awakening response.

^†p ≤.10.

^**p ≤.01.