Table 3.
Affective well-being levels as a function of positive and negative nostalgia (Studies 3 – 4)
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| Positive Nostalgia (N = 144) | Negative Nostalgia (N = 146) | Control (N = 155) | Omnibus Test | Positive vs. negative | Positive vs. control | Negative vs. control | |||||||
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| DV | α | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | F | p | ηp2 | Difference [95%CI] | p | Difference [95%CI] | p | Difference [95%CI] | p |
| PA | .74 | 3.88 (1.28) | 3.49 (1.29) | 3.47 (1.33) | 4.60 | .011 | .020 | .39 [.09, .69] | .011 | .41 [.11, .70] | .007 | .02 [−.28, .31] | .901 |
| PD | .87 | 4.49 (1.31) | 3.95 (1.36) | 4.14 (1.35) | 6.01 | .003 | .026 | .54 [.23, .85] | < .001 | .35 [.04, .65] | .025 | −.19 [−.49, .11] | .219 |
| NA | .88 | 2.97 (1.61) | 3.57 (1.74) | 3.58 (1.65) | 6.44 | .002 | .028 | −.60 [−.99, −.22] | .002 | −.61 [−.99, −.23] | .002 | −.01 [−.39, .37] | .949 |
| ND | .78 | 2.99 (1.45) | 3.41 (1.50) | 2.70 (1.44) | 9.10 | < .001 | .040 | −.43 [−.76, −.09] | .014 | .29 [−.04, .63] | .085 | .72 [.39, 1.05] | < .001 |
Note: PA = positive activated affect, PD = positive deactivated affect, NA = negative activated affect, ND = negative deactivated affect. Significance tests of difference scores were calculated with Fisher’s LSD.