Table 2.

Associations between the intensity of depressive symptoms and psychological indices assessed by Pearson's coefficients

	Correlation with depressive symptoms
External locus of control	r = 0.42,	P = 0.002
Anxiety
State	r = 0.72,	P = 0.001
Trait anxiety	r = 0.71,	P = 0.001
Mood
Tense arousal	r = 0.63,	P = 0.001
Energetic arousal	r = -0.73,	P = 0.001
Hedonic tone	r = -0.64,	P = 0.001
Coping with stress
Task-oriented	r = -0.29,	P = 0.043
Avoidance-oriented	r = -0.13	P = 0.387
substitutional activities	r = 0.10,	P = 0.509
social interaction	r = -0.32	P = 0.027
Emotion-oriented	r = 0.68,	P = 0.001