Negative affect and ruminative self-focus during everyday goal pursuit

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Table 1.  Fixed effect coefficients (SE) for multivariate multilevel model

	Criterion variable
Predictor	Negative affect	Ruminative self-focus
Person-level variables
BDI-II	0.548 (0.129)***	0.109 (0.093)
RSQ	0.028 (0.013)*	0.019 (0.009)*
Momentary goal variables
Importance	0.084 (0.021)***	0.093 (0.018)***
Success	−0.224 (0.019)***	−0.113 (0.016)***
Importance success	−0.037 (0.009)***	−0.014 (0.008)^†
Note: Analyses include 3631 occasions. Model includes linear and quadratic effects of time of day, and linear effect of day. BDI-II = Beck Depression Inventory–II score, RSQ = Ruminative Response Scale score. ^† p<.10; *p<.05; ***p<.001.

Figure 1.  Relationship between goal importance, goal success and negative affect. Goal importance and goal success are plotted at values 1 SD above and 1 SD below their respective means.