Profanity as a Self-Defense Mechanism and an Outlet for Emotional Catharsis in Stress, Anxiety, and Depression

Table 2

Correlation of the understudied variables ().

	Depression	Anxiety	Stress	Age	Education
Profanity	-0.182	-0.161	-0.250	0.031	0.016
Depression		0.674	0.753	-0.192	-0.136
Anxiety			0.727	-0.129	-0.097
Stress				-0.205	-0.138
Age					0.502

Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).