marginally significantp = 0.066
Exploratory Outcomes (Optimism Regarding Future Negative Events) An exploratory analysis revealed that when valence was added as an additional factor in the analysis, there was only a marginally significant time × valence × group interaction, F (2, 220) = 2.903, p = 0.066, η p 2 = 0.022, regarding comparative optimism bias for future events when we controlled for variations in trait optimism.