Table 6. Tinnitus loudness, Tinnitus annoyance, BDI, subscale of TQ (emotional distress, cognitive distress, intrusiveness, perceptual differences, sleep disturbance, somatic problems) & Total score on the TQ.

	Coping style
	adaptive	maladaptive
Tinnitus loudness	5.21	6.60	23.35***
Tinnitus annoyance	4.06	6.91	5.11*
BDI	7.20	19.20	39.07***
TQ
distress (emotional)	4.91	11.57	55.34***
distress (cognitive)	5.13	8.05	28.04***
intruisiveness	9.88	13.66	31.51***
perceptual difficulties	4.56	6.98	17.79***
sleep distubance	2.28	4.18	5.14*
somatic problems	2.72	4.77	15.87**
Total	29.47	49.20	8.42***

* p<.05;

** p<.01;

*** p<.001.