The phrase 'correlative for' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used when you are introducing an idea, statement, or action that has a corresponding or related item. For example, "A degree in English literature opens the door to many career paths, as well as the correlative for educational advancement." Here, the phrase 'correlative for' is used to refer to the educational advancement that can be gained by getting a degree in English literature.
A slight slouch seems an objective correlative for her reflexive self-deprecation.
Four characters in search of an objective correlative for their needy, angry, compulsive states of feelings.
Berlin saw the syncopated beat as a correlative for the nation's new fast pace and rhythm.
And have the Coens found, in Anton Chigurh, a correlative for their malign view of life?
There's always a background buzz of politics in Fontane's novels — a geopolitical correlative for the emotional drama.
Dante's nightmare vision becomes the book's visual correlative for what its scientific calculations suggest.
The lack of "fit" between Hammershøi's intimate themes and his bleakly incurious eye makes you realise with a shudder that he is not recording exterior reality at all, but finding correlatives for his state of mind.
The sonnets keep seeking correlatives for the novelty and power of feeling, and a fascinating group reflect on the recency of settler culture in America, blending in "with these / Deep shadings of the past, a deeper grief".
We aimed to establish the safety and pharmacokinetics of avelumab in patients with solid tumours while assessing biological correlatives for future development.
Bain sought to find physical correlatives for such abstract concepts as "idea" and "mind" and stressed the need for further investigation of the processes of the brain and the nervous system.
When Prior revisits the impoverished north of his childhood, when his blossoming romance in London starts to falter because of his blackouts, and when we are taken inside the prisons where 'conchies' are being systematically beaten and humilated, the novel does succeed in finding external correlatives for its psychological terrain.
