Table 1. Descriptive Statistics, Internal Consistency and Intra-Scale Correlations.
| Instrument | N | Min | Max | M | SD | α | Intra-scale correlations |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a | b | c | d | |||||||
| Age | 255 | 17 | 68 | 37.71 | 11.41 | |||||
| ERQ - adapted | 255 | .75 | ||||||||
| a. Reappraisal | 1.17 | 7.00 | 4.68 | 1.10 | .82 | .07 | .19** | |||
| b. Expressive Suppression | 1.00 | 7.00 | 3.41 | 1.31 | .75 | .14* | ||||
| c. Expressive Enhancement | 1.00 | 6.50 | 3.11 | 1.48 | .76 | |||||
| BFI | 142 | .73 | ||||||||
| a. Extraversion | 1.38 | 5.00 | 3.42 | 0.79 | .85 | |||||
| b. Agreeableness | 2.60 | 5.00 | 3.94 | 0.50 | .75 | .09 | ||||
| c. Conscientiousness | 1.22 | 5.00 | 3.93 | 0.58 | .82 | .19* | .14 | |||
| d. Neuroticism | 1.13 | 4.63 | 2.81 | 0.75 | .83 | -.15 | -.17* | -.23** | ||
| e. Openness to expressive | 1.70 | 5.00 | 3.56 | 0.64 | .81 | .18* | .08 | .08 | .03 | |
Note. ERQ = Emotion Regulation Questionnaire; BFI = Big Five Personality Inventory.
*p < .05. **p < .01.