Table 2.
Quantitative coding of event features and appraisals in emotion narratives, Study 1.
| Emotion narratives |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding categories | Joy | Pride | Gloating | Schaden-freude |
| Direct competitiona | 23% | 15% | 67% | 26% |
| χ2(3) = 38.25, p < 0.001 | ||||
| Direct benefit from misfortunea | 39% | 30% | 56% | 23% |
| χ2(3) = 22.75, p < 0.001 | ||||
| Direct comparisona | 08% | 09% | 41% | 37% |
| χ2(3) = 27.04, p < 0.001 | ||||
| Agencyb | ||||
| Self (individual or group) | 85% | 96% | 90% | 39% |
| χ2(3) = 12.00, p = 0.007 | ||||
| Other (individual or group) | 08% | 00% | 04% | 20% |
| χ2(3) = 13.24, p = 0.001 | ||||
| Third party (individual or group) | 00% | 00% | 00% | 30% |
| χ2(3) = 39.27, p < 0.001 | ||||
| Luck/happenstancec | 06% | 00% | 06% | 11% |
Frequencies found to most differ from others in the same row are shown in bold.
aCoded as either “not mentioned” (0) or “mentioned” (1). bThis Chi-square uses Yates’s correction for continuity to improve the accuracy of tests that include cells with small or zero values (see Preacher, 2001). cSmall frequencies in three conditions precluded a statistical test.