TABLE 4.
MEQ Emotional Reactivity and Emotional Regulation scales (intercorrelations, descriptive statistics, and coefficient alpha).
| Scale | PF | PI | PP | NF | NI | NP | PR | NR | OP | ON | Mean (SD) | Alpha |
| PF | − | 0.73 | 0.55 | −0.25 | −0.25 | −0.30 | −0.20 | −0.35 | 0.86 | −0.31 | 14.92 (4.33) | 0.81 |
| PI | − | 0.67 | −0.41 | −0.15 | −0.21 | −0.09NS | −0.28 | 0.91 | −0.30 | 16.13 (4.49) | 0.85 | |
| PP | − | −0.41 | −0.29 | 0.03NS | −0.13* | −0.21 | 0.85 | −0.26 | 14.25 (4.71) | 0.85 | ||
| NF | − | 0.70 | 0.55 | 0.15* | 0.54 | −0.41 | 0.87 | 11.01 (4.17) | 0.79 | |||
| NI | − | 0.64 | 0.21 | 0.59 | −0.26 | 0.90 | 12.84 (4.27) | 0.78 | ||||
| NP | − | 0.16 | 0.60 | −0.18 | 0.83 | 11.83 (3.94) | 0.76 | |||||
| PR | − | 0.36 | −0.16 | 0.20 | 9.09 (3.85) | 0.88 | ||||||
| NR | − | −0.32 | 0.67 | 13.17 (4.83) | 0.86 | |||||||
| OP | − | −0.33 | 45.40 (11.85) | 0.92 | ||||||||
| ON | − | 35.68 (10.74) | 0.90 |
PF, Positive Frequency; PI, Positive Intensity; PP, Positive Persistence; NF, Negative Frequency; NI, Negative Intensity; NP, Negative Persistence; PR, Positive Regulation; NR, Negative Regulation; OP, Overall Positive; ON, Overall Negative.
All correlations are statistically significant at alpha level of 0.01, except where ∗ indicates significant correlations at alpha level of 0.05 and NS indicates non-significant correlations.