Table 2. Pearson's correlation coefficients between personality traits and sensory detection and pain thresholds.
| Sensory Thresholds | Personality traits | |||||
| Neuroticism | Extraversion | Openness to experience | Agreeableness | Conscient-iousness | ||
| olfactoryN = 126 | Detection | −.026 | .100 | .064 | .269** | .007 |
| n.s. | .n.s. | n.s. | .002 (0.02) | n.s. | ||
| GustatoryN = 126 | Detection salty | .065 | .022 | .077 | .005 | −.122 |
| n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s | ||
| Detection sour | .114 | −.108 | −.049 | .022 | −.015 | |
| n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s | ||
| Trigeminal chemosensoryN = 106 | Detection | .272** | −.085 | .003 | .024 | −.213* |
| .005 (0.05) | .387 | .972 | .803 | . 028 (n.s.) | ||
| pain | . 225* | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | |
| . 021 (n.s.) | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | ||
| Electrical cutaneousN = 123 | Detection | .176 | −.051 | −.059 | .032 | −.058 |
| n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | n.s | ||
| pain | . 184* | .153 | .088 | .125 | −.181* | |
| . 042 (n.s.) | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | . 046 (n.s.) | ||
Note. In each line first correlation coefficients are presented, followed by level of significance. If p<0.05 the level of significance corrected for multiple comparison is presented in brackets. Correction was performed with the Bonferroni-Holm-method adjusted for dependent measurements (k = 10) [32]. n.s. … not significant. k … correction coefficient.