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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2014 Jul 14;49:84–95. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.07.004

Table 4.

Regression analyses for fear predicting heart rate stress responses (top part of table) and cortisol stress responses (lower part). Shown are statistics of the final models for each of the assessed emotion expression indices.

Count Total Duration Avg. Duration Max Intensity Avg. Intensity

beta p beta p beta p beta p beta p
Heart rate increases:

Anger 0.13 .56 -.03 .88 -0.14 .47 0.18 .36 0.14 .50
BMI 0.13 .54 0.09 .65 0.12 .55 0.04 .84 0.03 .87

Gender 0.03 .88 -0.01 .95 -0.02 .91 0.02 .92 0.001 .99

Fear -0.14 .57 -0.17 .48 -0.22 .56 -0.22 .39 -0.19 .46

Gender-by-Fear -0.06 .80 0.06 .79 0.45 .22 0.11 .67 0.09 .71

Cortisol increases:

Anger 0.11 .60 0.17 .38 0.36 .07- 0.36 .049* 0.33 .08-
BMI -0.06 .78 -0.09 .64 -0.18 .34 -0.11 .54 -0.13 .47

Gender 0.24 .25 0.24 .22 0.24 .21 0.25 .16 0.21 .23

Fear 0.04 .86 0.09 .70 -0.25 .48 -0.15 .53 -0.17 .46

Gender-by-Fear -0.20 .37 -0.23 .29 0.21 .56 -0.18 .44 -0.17 .45

Note: Significant effects are marked with an asterisk and trends with a dash.