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Table 2 Means, Standard Deviations (SD), Coefficient Alphas (α) and Pearson correlations of the personality-related measures

From: Interpersonal discrimination and depressive symptomatology: examination of several personality-related characteristics as potential confounders in a racial/ethnic heterogeneous adult sample

Measures

Mean

S.D.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

1. CESD

1.86

0.58

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2. Discrimination

0.75

0.78

−0.309***

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3. Hostility

2.56

0.62

−0.323***

−0.207***

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4. Anger repression

2.12

0.67

−0.318***

−0.170***

−0.176***

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5. Anger expression

1.61

0.58

−0.200***

−0.202***

−0.131***

−0.230***

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6. Pessimism

1.96

0.77

−0.373***

−0.070***

−0.402***

−0.146***

−0.119***

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7. Optimism

3.27

0.63

−0.205***

−0.081***

−0.002***

−0.107***

−0.117***

−0.185***

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8. Self-esteem

3.40

0.59

−0.466***

−0.143***

−0.211***

−0.222***

−0.216***

−0.460***

0.384***

  1. Note: ***p < 0.001, two tailed.