Table 1. Descriptive and inferential statistics for the measures employed in Studies 1 and 2.
| Worth of Victim Manipulation | Intercorrelations | ||||||||
| Measures | Pedophile | Volunteer | t | d | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. |
| Study 1 | M (SD) | M (SD) | |||||||
| 1. Deservingness of misfortune | 3.26 (1.65) | 1.34 (0.71) | 12.19** | 1.51 | [.86] | - | - | - | - |
| 2. Immanent justice reasoning | 1.98 (1.34) | 1.27 (0.70) | 5.28** | 0.66 | .56** | [.94] | - | - | - |
| 3. Deservingness of later fulfillment | 3.19 (1.29) | 5.09 (0.73) | 14.57** | 1.81 | -.67** | -.35** | [.86] | - | - |
| 4. Ultimate justice reasoning | 2.49 (1.08) | 4.66 (0.97) | 16.93** | 2.11 | -.64** | -.33** | .76** | [.97] | - |
| Study 2 | M | SD | |||||||
| 1. Self-esteem | 4.46 | 0.98 | - | - | [.93] | - | - | - | - |
| 2. Deservingness of misfortune | 2.81 | 1.18 | - | - | -.36** | [.69] | - | - | - |
| 3. Immanent justice reasoning | 2.93 | 1.22 | - | - | -.39** | .66** | [.94] | - | - |
| 4. Deservingness of later fulfillment | 4.81 | 0.95 | - | - | .38** | -.23* | -.16* | [.68] | - |
| 5. Ultimate justice reasoning | 4.70 | 1.05 | - | - | .62** | -.25** | -.22* | .43** | [.94] |
Note. Higher values indicate more of each construct. Where applicable, alpha reliabilities (or the bivariate correlations for the deservingness measures) are presented in brackets.
*p<.05
**p<.01