Is moral elevation an approach-oriented emotion?

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Table 1. Study 1: means, standard deviations, confidence intervals, and correlations among key variables.

Variable	Mean (SD)	95% CI	2	3	4	5	6	7
1. Elevation	3.85 (.82)	[3.66, 4.03]	.62^***	.32^**	.08	.19	.43^***	.22
2. Anger	3.94 (.64)	[3.79, 4.08]		.39^***	−.09	.19	.37^**	.29^**
3. Shame	5.87 (1.13)	[5.62, 6.12]			−.24^*	−.14	.07	.45^***
4. Approach-drive	2.55 (.70)	[2.40, 2.71]				.57^***	.54^***	−.19
5. Approach-fun	2.62 (.65)	[2.47, 2.76]					.48^***	−.05
6. Approach-reward	3.26 (.49)	[3.15, 3.37]						.13
7. Avoidance	2.98 (.68)	[2.83, 3.13]

Notes: N = 80. CI = confidence interval.

^* p < .05

^** p < .01

^*** p < .001.

Table 2. Study 2: means, standard deviations, confidence intervals, and correlations among key variables.

Variable	Mean (SD)	95% CI	2	3	4	5
1. Elevation	4.13 (1.55)	[3.78, 4.48]	−.18	.41^***	.01	.36^**
2. Anger	2.97 (1.98)	[2.53, 3.42]		.42^***	.36^**	.24^*
3. Approach	3.83 (1.78)	[3.43, 4.24]			.21	.62^***
4. Avoidance	1.93 (1.20)	[1.66, 2.20]				−.15
5. Prosocial motivation	5.70 (1.22)	[5.43, 5.98]

Notes: N = 78. CI = confidence interval.

^* p < .05

^** p < .01

^*** p < .001.

Figure 1. Study 2. Unstandardized B coefficients for mediation analyses using Process Macro (Hayes, 2013, model 6).

**p < .01. ***p < .001.

Hayes, A. F. (2013). An introduction to mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis: A regression-based approach. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

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