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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2008 Apr 18;159(1-2):215–225. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.04.009

Table 2.

Correlations between the Five Variables of Interest,* and Means ± Standard Deviations (SD) of Variables in the Original Scale and after Square-Root Transformation

Psychoticism Hostility Hopelessness Perceived Hassles Depression
Psychoticism 1
Hostility 0.68 1
Hopelessness 0.42 0.41 1
Perceived Hassles 0.66 0.55 0.35 1
Depression 0.67 0.62 0.54 0.65 1
Mean ± SD
  Original Scale 6.60 ± 7.70 4.69 ± 4.92 2.87 ± 3.45 90.72 ± 23.46 14.57 ± 11.29
  Transformed 2.10 ± 1.49 1.76 ± 1.26 1.34 ± 1.04 9.45 ± 1.23 3.47 ± 1.60
*

All correlations are statistically significant, P<0.001.