Table 3 Pearson correlations of emotion vocabulary (EV) with other study variables for study 2 (N = 35,385).

From: Natural emotion vocabularies as windows on distress and well-being

 

Pearson correlations with negative EV

Partial correlations with negative EV

Pearson correlations with positive EV

Partial correlations with positive EV

Negative EV

Positive EV

0.22 (0.01)***

0.12 (0.01)***

Demographic variables

  Agea

−0.09 (0.01)***

0.01 (0.01)

0.05, (0.01)***

−0.07 (0.01)***

  Genderb

0.15 (0.01)***

0.15 (0.01)***

0.07 (0.01)***

0.07 (0.01)***

Individual differences—text-derived

  Cognitive processing

0.21 (0.01)***

0.08 (0.01)***

  Negative emotional tone

0.51 (0.01)***

−0.03 (0.01)***

  Positive emotional tone

0.09 (0.01)***

0.35 (0.01)***

  General vocabulary size

0.24 (0.01)***

0.46 (0.00)***

  Illness words

0.16 (0.01)***

0.07 (0.01)***

0.07 (0.01)***

0.06 (0.01)***

  I-words

0.28 (0.01)***

0.20 (0.01)***

0.13 (0.01)***

0.10 (0.01)***

  We-words

−0.08 (0.01)***

0.00 (0.01)

−0.02 (0.01)**

0.00 (01)

  Affiliation words

−0.01 (0.01)

0.06 (0.01)***

0.08 (0.01)***

0.03 (0.01)***

  Achievement words

−0.10 (0.01)***

−0.07 (0.01)***

0.06 (0.01)***

−0.01 (0.01)

  Leisure words

−0.14 (0.01)***

−0.09 (0.01)***

0.06 (0.01)***

−0.05 (0.01)***

  1. Note: Partial correlations control for general vocabulary, negative, and positive emotional tone. All tests are two-tailed. Coefficients are expressed as r (SE). For 95% confidence intervals and exact significance values, see Supplementary Table 7.
  2. aFor analyses involving age, n = 9805 authors’ blogs.
  3. bCoded 0 = male, 1 = female.
  4. ***p < 0.001.
  5. **p < 0.01.
  6. *p < 0.05.
  7. p < 0.10.