Table 5.

Descriptive statistics and correlations between psychosocial variables and HRQL components and SWB, for subgroups of disease

	Mean (SD)			GWB			MH			PH			SWB
	M	N	C	M	N	C	M	N	C	M	N	C	M	N	C
Psychosocial Variables
Disp. Optimism (DOp)	20.1 (4.14)	20.77 (4.47)	21.61 (3.54)	0.40*	0.40*	0.35*	0.37*	0.41*	0.35*	0.18*	0.22*	0.23*	0.40*	0.40*	0.44*
Positive Affect (PA)	2.86 (0.79)	3.01 (0.79)	3.02 (0.76)	0.44*	0.27*	0.43*	0.33*	0.33*	0.32*	0.25*	0.097	0.33*	0.35*	0.27*	0.41*
Negative Affect (NA)	2.08 (0.82)	1.83 (0.68)	1.86 (0.66)	−0.47*	−0.51*	−0.44*	−0.59*	−0.61*	−0.50*	−0.34*	−0.40*	−0.34*	−0.42*	−0.35*	−0.41*
Spirituality (Sp)	2.65 (0.77)	2.63 (0.74)	2.88 (0.71)	0.21*	0.13	0.16*	0.16*	0.06	0.20&	0.01	−0.05	0.09	0.42*	0.30*	0.48*
Social Support (SS)	66.74 (21.44)	71.34 (20.37)	69.10 (21.97)	0.37*	0.12	0.30*	0.35*	0.21*	0.31*	0.28*	−0.004	0.29*	0.48*	0.25*	0.27*
Treatment Adherence (TA)	5.22 (0.59)	5.51 (0.44)	5.64 (0.41)	0.15*	0.06	0.22*	0.18*	0.22*	0.16*	0.18*	0.16*	0.17*	0.14*	0.12	0.60&
Quality of Life Variables
General well-being (GWB)	45.59 (19.21)	52.01 (16.78)	55.17 (18.60)	-	-	-	0.68*	0.58*	0.66*	0.71*	0.64*	0.74*	0.56*	0.50*	0.54*
Mental health (MH)	62.63 (25.90)	70.46 (22.82)	69.98 (24.97)	0.71*	0.58*	0.66*	-	-	-	0.64*	0.60*	0.67*	0.51*	0.44*	0.48*
Physical health (PH)	59.83 (28.14)	68.06 (24.26)	67.37 (24.41)	0.68*	0.64*	0.74*	0.64*	0.60*	0.67*	-	-	-	0.39*	0.41*	0.49*
Subjective well-being (SWB)	60.42 (17.84)	65.27 (15.50)	67.52 (16.16)	0.56*	0.50*	0.54*	0.51*	0.44*	0.48*	0.39*	0.41*	0.49*	-	-	-

*p<0.001.

^&p<0.05.

M – Metabolic Subgroup; N – Neurologic Subgroup; C – Cancer Subgroup.