Table 5.

Descriptive statistics of variables in Study 4 and within-person relationships between momentary nostalgia and momentary well-being after adjusting for a linear time trend.

			Variation
			Between-person	Within-person		Within-person relationships
	Reliability	Unconditional model intercept		Betweenday	Withinday	Coeff	t-ratio
Nostalgia		2.25	1.73	.19	.79
Meaning in life		4.09	1.24	.19	.57	.04	1.50
Optimism		4.34	1.14	.22	.64	.04	1.49
Positive activated affect	.79	3.41	.73	.37	1.16	.05	1.32
Positive deactivated affect	.80	4.02	.63	.37	1.11	.01	<1
Negative activated affect	.75	2.78	.69	.57	.97	.01	<1
Negative deactivated affect	.78	1.91	.78	.29	.50	.16	5.44***

Note:

^ap <.10.

^*p <.05.

^**p <.01.

^***p <.001