Table 2.

Pearson correlations between sociodemographic and health behaviors with emotion regulation and inflammation.

	Suppression	Reappraisal	Inflammation Index	hsCRP	WBC	Fibrinogen
Sex	−0.01	−0.01	0.06	0.06	0.02	0.06
Age	0.09 *	0.03	0.12 **	0.08	0.06	0.14 **
Education	−.07	0.00	−0.14 **	−0.10 **	−0.09 *	−0.12 **
Race	0.08	0.09 *	−0.02	−0.02	−0.00	−0.03
Income	−0.04	−0.05	−0.08	−0.09 *	−0.04	−0.05
Creatinine	0.08	0.04	0.13 **	0.11 **	0.05	0.13 **
BMI	0.11 **	−0.05	0.30 **	0.36 **	0.14 **	0.18 **
Inactivity	0.13 **	0.05	−0.13 **	−0.20 **	−0.01	−0.09 *
Drinking	−0.00	−0.02	−0.06	−0.02	−0.09 *	−0.03
Smoking	−0.02	0.01	0.14 **	0.07	0.17 **	0.08
Poor Sleep	0.19 **	−0.04	0.10 **	0.08 *	0.11 **	0.04

Note.

^*p < .05

^**p ≤ .01.

All inflammatory markers are log transformed. Inflammatory index is standardized summation of log-transformed markers. Suppression & Reappraisal = Emotion Regulation Questionnaire subscale scores.