Table 1.
Descriptive statistics and correlations of study variables between time and conditions.
| Time | Neutral condition |
Chaos condition |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M(SD) | Baseline | Phase 1 | Phase 2 | Phase 3 | Baseline | Phase 1 | Phase 2 | |||
| Negative emotional state | Neutral condition | Baseline | 0.12 (0.08) | |||||||
| Phase 1 | 0.19 (0.12) | .57*** | - | |||||||
| Phase 2 | 0.18 (0.12) | .49*** | .86*** | |||||||
| Phase 3 | 0.19 (0.13) | .40*** | .79*** | .86*** | ||||||
| Chaos condition | Baseline | 0.14 (0.09) | .53*** | .45*** | .40*** | .44*** | ||||
| Phase 1 | 0.21 (0.11) | .39*** | .58*** | .61*** | .65*** | .68*** | ||||
| Phase 2 | 0.19 (0.11) | .35** | .68*** | .68*** | .72*** | .63*** | .79*** | - | ||
| Phase 3 | 0.19 (0.12) | .40*** | .70*** | .78*** | .76*** | .53*** | .69*** | .87*** | ||
| Salivary alpha-amylase | Neutral condition | Baseline | 5.00 (0.34) | |||||||
| Phase 1 | 5.08 (0.31) | .83*** | ||||||||
| Phase 2 | 5.04 (0.31) | .79*** | .84*** | |||||||
| Phase 3 | 5.02 (0.31) | .82*** | .84*** | .89*** | ||||||
| Chaos condition | Baseline | 4.97 (0.37) | .72*** | .68*** | .70*** | .68*** | ||||
| Phase 1 | 5.11 (0.35) | .61*** | .63*** | .68*** | .65*** | .81*** | ||||
| Phase 2 | 5.03 (0.32) | .58*** | .60*** | .69*** | .64*** | .78*** | .89*** | |||
| Phase 3 | 5.04 (0.31) | .67*** | .66*** | .73*** | .75*** | .80*** | .88*** | .87*** | ||
| Sensitive caregiving | Neutral condition | Phase 1 | 6.03 (1.55) | |||||||
| Phase 2 | 4.74 (1.92) | .54*** | ||||||||
| Phase 3 | 4.09 (1.92) | .43*** | .83*** | |||||||
| Chaos condition | Phase 1 | 5.75 (1.54) | .43*** | .18 | .22* | |||||
| Phase 2 | 4.37 (1.96) | .25* | .50*** | .53*** | .46*** | |||||
| Phase 3 | 4.03 (1.89) | .25* | .50*** | .57*** | .41*** | .81*** | ||||
Note. Salivary alpha-amylase, and negative emotional state are log-transformed. Sensitive caregiving was not assessed during baseline. *p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001, N range = 87–95.