Table 3.

Correlations: Doctor and Patient Word Use with Patient Age and Education

Measures	Patient Age	Patient Education
Patient word use
Rare word tendency	.03	.19**
Challenge	.10	.41***
Medicalization	.03	.15*
Doctor word use
Rare word tendency	−.22**	.17*
Challenge	−.22**	.26***
Medicalization	−.16*	.04

^*p < .10

^**p < .05

^***p < .01