Table 4. Correlations and descriptive statistics for the variables of male participants (below diagonal) and female participants (above diagonal) in study 2.
| Desire to play RVGs | Voice (real life) | Touch (real life) | Voice (RVGs) | Touch (RVGs) | Loneliness | Skills Acquisition | Positive Affect Enhancement | |
| Desire to play RVGs | 1 | .05 | .11 | .29** | .14 | .11 | .28** | .41** |
| Voice (real life) | -.12 | 1 | .22* | .34** | .24* | -.09 | .06 | .13 |
| Touch (real life) | -.12 | .68** | 1 | .09 | .18 | -.05 | .06 | -.01 |
| Voice (RVGs) | .27** | .27** | .20** | 1 | .46** | .08 | .19 | .29** |
| Touch (RVGs) | .29** | .24** | .17* | .59** | 1 | .03 | .34** | .31* |
| Loneliness | .15* | -.03 | -.12 | .07 | .11 | 1 | .00 | .09 |
| Skills Acquisition | .29** | -.15 | -.13 | .14 | .14 | .01 | 1 | .63** |
| Positive Affect Enhancement | .33** | .03 | .03 | .31** | .20** | .11 | .54** | 1 |
| Descriptive statistics | ||||||||
| Mean (Male) | 21.78 | 5.99 | 5.82 | 4.80 | 3.99 | 1.64 | 2.90 | 3.87 |
| Mean (Female) | 28.87 | 5.87 | 5.97 | 5.39 | 4.29 | 1.60 | 4.29 | 2.93 |
| S.D. (Male) | 25.95 | 1.12 | 1.17 | 1.61 | 1.69 | .51 | 1.25 | 1.37 |
| S.D. (Female) | 28.83 | 1.23 | 1.01 | 1.35 | 1.64 | .47 | 1.38 | 1.13 |
*p<0.05, two-tailed.
**p < 0.01, two-tailed.