TABLE 2.
Mean and correlation between pre‐ and post‐anxiety and personality characteristics, illness perception, and dispositional optimism
| Correlation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Questionnaire | Variable | Mean | SD | Anxiety pre‐MRI | Anxiety post‐MRI |
| r | r | ||||
| STAI‐Y 1 | Anxiety pre‐MRI | 42.49 | 18.01 | 0.54*** | |
| STAI‐Y 1 | Anxiety post‐MRI | 48.04 | 32.38 | 0.54*** | |
| LOT‐R | Dispositional optimism | 15.31 | 4.97 | −0.33* | −0.59*** |
| BIF‐10 | Agreableness | 7.22 | 1.69 | −0.04 | 0.06 |
| Conscientiousness | 8.07 | 1.71 | −0.08 | −0.05 | |
| Emotional_stability | 6.58 | 2.21 | −0.47*** | −0.32* | |
| Extraversion | 6.11 | 1.43 | 0.01 | 0.06 | |
| Openness | 7.76 | 1.73 | −0.14 | 0.11 | |
| IPQ‐R | Timeline | 15.27 | 5.14 | 0.01* | 0.08 |
| Consequences | 14.31 | 4.79 | 0.35* | 0.23 | |
| Personal control | 14.09 | 4.37 | 0.07 | −0.18 | |
| Treatment control | 14.80 | 2.56 | 0.02 | −0.14 | |
| Disease coherence | 14.33 | 3.72 | −0.50** | −0.22 | |
| Cyclical timeline | 6.38 | 3.36 | 0.15 | 0.41** | |
| Emotional representation | 12.38 | 6.35 | 0.57*** | 0.59*** | |
Note: *p value ≤.05; **p value ≤.001; ***p value ≤.0001.