Smoking, Cardiac Symptoms, and an Emergency Care Visit: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Cognitive and Emotional Reactions

Table 2

Correlation coefficients for perceived event severity over the three time anchors.

	Perceived severity at symptom onset	Perceived severity at presentation to hospital	Perceived severity at time of interview	Emotional valence at symptom onset	Emotional valence at presentation to hospital	Emotional valence at time of interview
Perceived severity at symptom onset	1.00
Perceived severity at presentation to hospital	.09	1.00
Perceived severity at time of interview	.14	.39^**	1.00
Emotional valence at symptom onset	−.43^**	−.23	−.28^*	1.00
Emotional valence at presentation to hospital	.07	−.09	−.19	.24	1.00
Emotional valence at time of interview	.06	−.17	−.15	.18	.48^**	1.00

^*𝑃 < 0.05 level (2-tailed), ^**𝑃 < 0.01 level (2-tailed).