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Table 5 Correlations of psychological factors

From: Psychological processes in the experience of hereditary angioedema in adult patients: an observational study

Patient’s health engagement conditions by psychoticism, global severity and stress

 

Arousal, n (%)

Adhesion, n (%)

Eudaimonic project, n (%)

Chi-square p value

Psychoticism low (n = 10)

2 (20)

6 (60)

2 (20)

 

Psychoticism high (n = 15)

6 (40)

8 (53.3)

1 (6.7)

0.430

GSI low (n = 13)

3 (23.1)

8 (61.5)

2 (15.4)

 

GSI high (n = 12)

5 (41.7)

6 (50)

1 (8.3)

0.583

No stress (n = 7)

0

4 (25)

3 (75)

 

Stress (n = 21)

8 (100)

12 (75)

1 (25)

0.018

Alexithymia by psychoticism and global severity index (GSI)

 

No alexithymia, n (%)

Possible alexithymia, n (%)

Alexithymia, n (%)

Chi-square p value

Psychoticism low (n = 10)

10 (100)

0

0

 

Psychoticism high (n = 15)

10 (66.7)

2 (13.3)

2 (20)

0.125

GSI low (n = 13)

12 (92.3)

1 (7.7)

0

 

GSI high (n = 12)

8 (66.7)

1 (8.3)

3 (25)

0.152