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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2020 Oct 22;35(5):609–620. doi: 10.1037/adb0000612

Table 2.

Types of positive and negative social experiences

M SD
Positive Social Experiences
Someone showed they cared about me 1.61 0.96
Someone let me know they understood my problems 1.45 0.95
Someone let me know they understood my stress 1.22 0.98
Someone complimented me 1.22 0.97
Someone expressed sympathy toward me 1.08 0.99

Negative Social Experiences
Someone disagreed with me 0.50 0.74
Someone argued with me 0.28 0.56
Someone was impatient with me 0.28 0.56
Someone got angry with me 0.22 0.49
Someone lost their temper with me 0.16 0.42