Table 5.
Study 2: Emotional Interdependence: Associations with Variables that Might Moderate Opportunity and Motivation
| Amount of time spent together |
Relationship Longevity |
Cohabitation Status |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rs | p | rs | p |
M cohabiting |
M
non- cohabiting |
t | p | ||
| Concurrent linkages | |||||||||
| r | |||||||||
| NE | .09 | .54 | −.02 | .88 | .29 | .21 | 1.61 | .25 | |
| PE | .30 | .03 | .22 | .13 | .29 | .17 | 1.82 | .07 | |
| EE | .17 | .23 | .08 | .57 | .21 | .10 | 2.21 | .03 | |
| dr | |||||||||
| NE | .07 | .64 | −.06 | .69 | .36 | .33 | 0.86 | .39 | |
| PE | .37 | <.01* | .22 | .12 | .39 | .33 | 1.90 | .06 | |
| EE | .24 | .09 | .11 | .44 | .32 | .25 | 2.78 | .01* | |
| Temporal linkages (r) | |||||||||
| NE | .12 | .22 | .07 | .50 | .03 | −.04 | 1.58 | .12 | |
| PE | .00 | .97 | −.03 | .80 | .04 | .03 | 0.23 | .82 | |
| EE | .05 | .60 | −.02 | .87 | .06 | .01 | 0.99 | .33 | |
Note: NE = negative emotions, PE = positive emotions, EE = emotional extremity, r = Pearson correlation, dr = distance correlation,
*
Significant at .017 significance level.