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. 2015 Oct 12;31(3):313–330. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2015.1088014

Table 3. Main effects by each participant.

Participant Goal-setting
  Self-monitoring
  Linear time trend
B SE p 95% CI d (95% CI) B SE p 95% CI d (95% CI) B SE p 95% CI
1 369 611 .53 −828, 1567 .16 (−.34, .66) 419 671 .51 −897, 1735 .17 (−.33, .67) 31 21 .08 −9, 71
2 −259 982 .66 −2183, 1666 −.32 (−.82, .18) 837 904 .35 −936, 2609 .43 (-.08, .93) −10 30 .54 −69, 49
3 566 1051 .58 −1495, 2626 −.14 (−.64, .36) 758 940 .41 −1084, 2599 .47 (−.04, .97) 30 32 .31 −34, 93
4 683 1318 .61 −1900, 3265 .14 (−.36, .64) 1290 1333 .33 −1322, 3902 .36 (−.15, .86) −86 36 .02 −156, −16
6 −263 1035 .46 −2291, 1766 .02 (−.47, .52) 574 937 .43 −1262, 2411 −.07 (−.57, .43) 4 24 .72 −44, 51
8 329 1179 .75 −1981, 2640 −.01 (−.50, .49) 126 1177 .78 −2181, 2432 −.32 (−.82, .18) −82 32 .01 −144, −20
9 −362 823 .66 −1975, 1251 .34 (−.17, .84) −191 1013 .61 −2176, 1794 .33 (−.17, .83) −5 27 .61 −57, 48
10 768 788 .31 −777, 2312 .38 (−.13, .87) 1055 739 .15 −393, 2503 .32 (−.18, .82) 9 23 .54 −37, 55

Linear time trend was analysed using the original values with missing cases imputed because pre-whitening would remove the effect being tested, while goal-setting and self-monitoring were analysed using the pre-whitened values with missing cases imputed. For the goal-setting and self-monitoring analyses, pre-whitening was required twice for participant two (at lag1 for imputations 2 and 5), once for participant three (at lag1 for imputation 1), three times for participant 6 (at lag1 for imputations 3–5), once for participant 8 (at lag2 for imputation 4), once for participant 9 (at lag4 for imputation 1) and twice for participant 10 (at lag1 for imputation 2 and lag5 for imputation 3). For participant 1, pre-whitening was required in four instances (at lag1 for imputations 2–5). However, in three instances, pre-whitening did not successfully remove significant autocorrelation (imputations 2 and 4–5). Therefore, we conducted a sensitivity analysis whereby the combined results of including all five imputations (one with no autocorrelation and four pre-whitened at lag1) were compared with only including the two imputations where pre-whitening was successfully removed (one with no autocorrelation and one pre-whitened at lag1). In the table, we report the results with all five imputations combined. When only the two imputations that had autocorrelation successfully removed with pre-whitening were included, the combined results were weaker for both goal-setting (B = 156, SE = 568, p = .74, 95% CI = −958, 1270) and self-monitoring (B = 111, SE = 528, p = .78, 95% CI = −925, 1146). The effect sizes (Cohen’s d) were calculated using the means and standard deviations of the original data before imputation of missing cases.