Table 2.

Descriptive findings and zero-order r correlations for all the study variables (N = 154).

	Min	Max	M	SD	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1. SF12PCS	16.66	60.30	39.08	10.86	-	0.11	0.43 **	0.06	0.18 *	0.35 **	−0.46 **	0.48 **	0.24 **	0.29 **
2. SF12MCS	20.73	64.11	46.59	9.93		-	0.26 **	0.05	0.14 †	0.36 **	−0.58 **	0.55 **	0.33 **	0.36 **
3. Self-efficacy	46	99	78.67	11.32			-	0.17 *	0.29 **	0.44 **	−0.39 **	0.49 **	0.17 *	0.23 **
4. Optimism	10	29	19.83	2.76				-	–0.10	0.13	−0.03	0.10	0.13	0.01
5. Social support	37	95	72.56	16.81					-	0.48 **	−0.34 **	0.49 **	0.32 **	0.34 **
6. Positive affect	9	27	16.87	3.92						-	−0.43 **	0.85 **	0.29 **	0.40 **
7. Negative affect	9	26	15.88	3.80							-	−0.84 **	−0.51 **	−0.40 **
8. Hedonic balance	−13	17	0.99	6.53								-	0.47 **	0.47 **
9. Life satisfaction	8	35	25.88	5.61									-	0.45 **
10. Current happiness	0	10	6.59	1.90										-

SF12PCS: SF12 Physical health component summary; SF12MCS: SF12 Mental health component summary. † p < 0.10, * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01.