Table 5.

Associations between Short-term Variability in Life Satisfaction, Neuroticism, and Psychological Health, Adjusting for Mean Life Satisfaction

	Community Adults (U.S.)	Undergraduates (U.S.)	Undergraduates (Canadian)
Nfull (Nreconstituted)	130 (78)	184 (112)	222 (80)
Neuroticism
Correlation in reconstituted sample	.26 [.16, .35]	26 [.17, .34]	.26 [.15, .39]
Partial correlation	.20 [.03, .36]	.14 [−.001, .28]	.12 [−.01, .25]
Psychological health
Correlation in reconstituted sample	−.29 [−.37, −.19]	−.22 [−.28 , −.14]	−.37 [−.47, −.28]
Partial correlation	−.22 [−.38, −.05]	−.13 [−.27, .02]	−.23 [−.35, −.10]

Note. Psychological health was assessed as a composite of lower depressive symptoms and higher psychological well-being in the two U.S. samples and as trait self-esteem in the Canadian Undergraduate sample. Reconstituted correlations are mean bootstrapped Pearson’s correlations (rs) in reconstituted samples. Each reconstituted sample included an equal number of participants above and below the midpoint in life satisfaction. The reconstituted N is the sample size in each of the 1,000 bootstrapped samples. Partial correlations (rs) are correlations between short-term variability in life satisfaction, neuroticism, and psychological health. 95% confidence intervals are shown in brackets. p < .05 = bold.