Table 4.
Pearson correlations of the moderator variables (outliers excluded).
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Publication year | 43 | ||||||
| 2 | Percentage of females (%) | .08 | 43 | |||||
| 3 | Age | .10 | −.08 | 41 | ||||
| 4 | SOC scale version [SOC-13 (1) vs SOC-29 (2)] | −.21 | −.40* | −.13 | 34 | |||
| 5 | PTSD measure [IES (1) vs PDS (2)] | .13 | .32 | .32 | −.14 | 19 | ||
| 6 | Trauma criterion A [stringent criteria (1) vs high-risk samples (2)] | .27 | .13 | .29 | −.31 | .22 | 37 | |
| 7 | Duration of stressor [short (1) vs long (2)] | −.01 | .07 | .67** | −.27 | −.10 | .65** | 22 |
The diagonal contains the number of studies (k) included in each moderator analysis.
SOC, sense of coherence; PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder; IES, Impact of Event Scale; PDS, Post-traumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale
*p < .05, **p < .01.