Table 1.
Descriptive statistics and moderating effects of personality at baseline on happiness and depressive symptoms in the three funny things condition compared to the placebo control-condition for Study 1.
| AHI |
CES-D |
Happiness |
Depression |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | r | r | df | B | SE B | t | p | df | B | SE B | t | p | |
| Psychoticism | 7.68 | 3.42 | -0.02 | -0.06 | 99 | -13.67 | 18.60 | -0.74 | 0.23 | 99 | 11.97 | 9.68 | 1.24 | 0.11 |
| Extraversion | 11.96 | 4.46 | 0.39*** | -0.20* | 99 | 23.46 | 9.88 | 2.37 | 0.01 | 99 | -9.19 | 5.24 | -1.75 | 0.04 |
| Neuroticism | 14.00 | 5.25 | -0.53*** | 0.41*** | 99 | -5.84 | 9.41 | -0.62 | 0.27 | 99 | 0.81 | 4.73 | 0.17 | 0.43 |
| Lie-scale | 8.36 | 3.81 | -0.05 | 0.08 | 99 | -0.34 | 11.74 | -0.03 | 0.49 | 99 | -1.50 | 6.12 | -0.24 | 0.41 |
N = 104. r = partial correlation with AHI/CES-D at pretest controlled for age. Happiness/Depression = Personality × condition interaction (0 = Placebo control condition, 1 = Three funny things-intervention) as predictor of the happiness/depression scores after the intervention (all follow-ups averaged), when controlling for pretest scores in happiness/depression and personality. ∗p < 0.05, ∗∗p < 0.01, ∗∗∗p < 0.001 (two-tailed).