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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Loss Trauma. 2011 Mar 24;16(4):358–385. doi: 10.1080/15325024.2011.572030

Table 3.

Mean Number of Death Words Completed as a Function of Trauma Symptom Status, Self-Esteem Manipulation, and Salience Prime in Study 2

Self-Esteem Boost
Neutral Self-Esteem
Salience Prime
Salience Prime
Control Mortality Control Mortality
n= 75 n= 73 n= 76 n= 66


Trauma Symptom Group High 1.92 (1.44) 3.57 (2.88) High 1.30 (1.33) 2.83 (1.64)
n= 19 n= 12 n= 7 n= 22 n= 10 n= 12
Medium 1.63 (.93) 2.80 (1.79) Medium 1.50 (1.53) 2.33 (1.84)
n= 102 n= 46 n= 56 n= 93 n= 54 n= 39
Low 1.12 (1.32) 3.10 (1.37) Low 2.25 (1.91) 1.80 (1.82)
n= 27 n= 17 n= 10 n= 27 n= 12 n= 15