Table 5.

Correlation matrix of positive emotions and potential predictive variables: social support, species, age, gender, bond, and living arrangement.

	Schedule	Uncertainty	Purpose	Self-Compassion	Species	Social Support	Bond	Gender	Age	Living Arrangement
Schedule	1
Uncertainty	0.298 **	1
Purpose	0.224 **	0.338 **	1
Self-compassion	0.184 **	0.314 **	0.398 **	1
Species	−0.090 **	−0.028 *	−0.009	0.004	1
Social support	0.016	0.007	−0.022	0.027	0.007	1
Bond	−0.023	0.040 **	0.065 **	0.053 **	0.098 **	0.055 **	1
Gender	0.056 **	0.046 **	0.052 **	0.037 **	0.040 **	0.034 *	0.009	1
Age	−0.135 **	−0.075 **	−0.097 **	−0.098 **	0.148 **	−0.017	0.119 **	−0.002	1
Living arrangement	−0.012	−0.018	−0.042 **	−0.023	−0.130 **	0.080 **	−0.049 **	−0.027	−0.140 **	1

** = p < 0.01 level (2-tailed); * = p < 0.05 level (2-tailed).