‘Pawing’ uncertainty! how dogs attenuate the impact of daily hassles at work on uncertainty

BMC Psychology

Table 2 Means, standard deviations, and between-and within-person level correlations

Variables	M	SD	1	2	3	4	5
1. Daily hassles	1.96	0.77	-	0.27**	-0.10*	-0.11*	-0.09*
2. Perceived uncertainty	2.82	0.73	0.32**	-	0.23**	-0.06*	0.02
3. Adaptive performance	3.42	0.83	-0.19**	0.03	-	0.08*	-0.08*
4. Dogs	-	-	0.02	-0.06*	0.15**	-	0.06*
5. Time	-	-	0.02	0.03	0.04	0.01	-

Note. Correlations below the diagonal are between-person level. Correlations above the diagonal are within-person level. Time variable ranged between 1 to 10 (the number of days of the data collection). N_{(observations)} = 2,330; n_{(participants)} = 233. Dogs: 1-no; 2-yes. ***p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01, *p < 0.05

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