Table 2.
Pearson's Correlation Coefficients Between Memory Measures and Heart Rate Changes
| Intrusive memory | Recognition memory | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency_image | Frequency_thought | Vividness_image | Gist | Detail | |||
| Intrusive memory | Frequency_image | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Frequency_thought | −.05 (64) | – | – | – | – | ||
| Vividness_image | .00 (56) | −.12 (56) | – | – | – | ||
| Recognition memory | Gist | .15 (64) | −.04 (64) | .18 (56) | – | – | |
| Detail | .27 (64)* | −.14 (64) | .16 (56) | .31 (64)* | – | ||
| ΔHR | Overall perifilm ΔHR | .08 (64) | −.17 (64) | .07 (56) | .07 (64) | −.02 (64) | |
| Intrusive sequence ΔHRa | −.35 (54)* | −.04 (54) | −.01 (54) | .05 (54) | −.40 (54)** | ||
Note. Numbers in the brackets indicate sample sizes. Frequency_image = frequency of intrusive images; Frequency_thought = frequency of intrusive thoughts; Vividness_image = vividness of intrusive images; ΔHR = HR change.
a
Only the participants who had had at least one intrusive image and were able to identify the intrusive sequence(s) in the trauma film were included in this analysis.
*
p < .05.
**
p < .01.