. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 22.

Published in final edited form as: J Cogn Dev. 2009 Sep 3;10(3):210–235. doi: 10.1080/15248370903155866

Table 1.

Consistency of Elaborative Style: Correlations Within and Across Emotional and Factual Aspects of Positive and Negative Events for Mothers and Fathers (all N=40)

	Within events: factual to emotional
	Positive event		Negative event
	Mothers	Fathers	Mothers	Fathers
Elaborations	.30⁺	.37^*	−.09	.32^*
Evaluations	.43^**	.50^**	.33^*	.37^*
Repetitions	.38^*	.29⁺	.16	.00

	Across events: positive to negative
	Emotional		Factual
	Mothers	Fathers	Mothers	Fathers
Elaborations	.05	.46^**	.26	.32^*
Evaluations	.13	.58^**	.73^**	.62^**
Repetitions	.07	−.06	.26	.08

⁺

p < .10.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.