Table 5.

Pearson correlations of the IHEAR-IT scales with the SF-36v2 summary scores and the HHIE/HHIA Total Score (n = 376)

	SF-36v2 PCS	SF-36v2 MCS	HHIE/HHIA Total Score
IHEAR-IT Scales
Psychological/Emotional	−0.02	0.64^**	−0.80^**
Social/Interpersonal	0.01	0.48^**	−0.84^**
Activity/Community Participation	0.10	0.34^**	−0.70^**
Access to Information and Communication	0.04	0.32^**	−0.75^**
Work^a (n = 162)	0.08	0.36^**	−0.65^**
Intimacy^b (n = 239)	−0.01	0.39^**	−0.62^**
SF-36v2 PCS	1.00	−0.09	0.04
SF=36v2 MCS	−0.09	1.00	−0.47^**
HHIE/HHIA Total Score	0.04	−0.47^**	1.00
HHIE/HHIA Social/Situational Score	0.03	−0.38^**	0.95^**
HHIE/HHIA Emotional Score	0.06	−0.49^**	0.96^**

Note. PCS = physical component score; MCS = mental component score; HHIE/HHIA = Hearing Handicapped Inventory for the Elderly/Hearing Handicapped Inventory for Adults. Correlations without a superscript are not significant (p > 0.05).

^**

p < 0.01.

Only participants who indicated being actively employed were included in the Work scale.

Only participants who indicated being currently in an intimate relationship were included in the Intimacy/Sexual Relations scale.