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Hypothesis 3. On Days in Which the Wives Reported Elevations in Anxious Mood, Husbands Will Be Perceived as Having at Least Some Involvement in the Experience of Anxiety

by Persecution Live News July 14, 2023 44

We identified all days on which wives reported at least moderate anxiety (2 or 3 on a 0–3 scale). We then examined the frequency, across all these days, of moderate to high (2 or 3 on a 0–3 scale) ratings on follow-up questions concerning the husbands’ influence on the wives’ anxiety that day. Wives reported at least moderate anxiety on an average of 10 of 14 days (range = 6–14). On 60.5% of these occasions, wives perceived their husbands as having at least some (ratings of 2 or 3 on a 0–3 scale) influence on their anxiety that day. On 44.4% of these days, husbands were perceived as improving the wife’s anxiety; on 17.4% of days, husbands were perceived as making the wife’s anxiety worse; and on 38.4% of days, husbands were perceived as neither making the anxiety better nor worse. A one-way chi-square test revealed significant differences in the proportions of each type of rating (i.e., anxiety made better, worse or neither) represented across all high-anxiety days, χ²(2, N = 66) = 36.69, p < .05.

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