Table 4.
Mean differences in autobiographical memories with gender and type of memory
| Measure | Gender | Event | Interaction | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| male | female | F | η2 | remote | recent | F | η2 | F . | |
| Involuntary | 2.57 | 2.84 | 37.65*** | .02 | 2.31 | 3.14 | 295.59*** | .13 | 5.27* |
| Voluntary | 2.71 | 2.98 | 39.78*** | .02 | 2.36 | 3.37 | 431.38*** | .18 | 2.93 |
| Reliving | 3.58 | 3.69 | 6.70* | .00 | 3.38 | 3.90 | 119.10*** | .06 | 0.80 |
| Belief | 4.32 | 4.34 | 0.45 | .00 | 4.22 | 4.44 | 40.43*** | .00 | 0.38 |
| Visual | 3.91 | 3.98 | 3.96* | .00 | 3.69 | 4.21 | 174.05*** | .08 | 3.64 |
| Auditory | 2.96 | 3.04 | 3.31 | .00 | 2.46 | 3.55 | 327.84*** | .14 | 0.01 |
| Setting | 4.25 | 4.30 | 2.95 | .00 | 4.17 | 4.40 | 44.73*** | .02 | 0.58 |
| Intensity | 3.19 | 3.53 | 45.46*** | .02 | 3.08 | 3.69 | 139.36*** | .06 | 0.11 |
| Valence | 3.77 | 3.88 | 5.00* | .00 | 3.90 | 3.77 | 8.73** | .00 | 4.60* |
| Coherence | 3.75 | 3.96 | 25.38*** | .01 | 3.60 | 4.13 | 146.98*** | .07 | 0.21 |
| Life story | 2.65 | 3.03 | 48.68*** | .02 | 2.79 | 2.93 | 6.46** | .00 | 4.00* |
Notes: all F have 1 df in the numerator and between 1949 and 1972 in the denominator.
*
p < .05,
**
p < .01
***
p < .0001.
η51;2 for all interactions were .00