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Published in final edited form as: Int J Audiol. 2016 Apr 22;55(7):381–391. doi: 10.3109/14992027.2016.1166397

Table 6.

Associations of IHEAR-IT scales and individual items with demographic variables and hearing loss

Scales/Individual Items	Age	Annual Income	Highest Educational Level	Self-reported hearing loss level^a	Audiometric hearing loss level^b
Psychological/Emotional	0.31^**	0.08	0.04	− 0.27^**	− 0.29^**
Social/Interpersonal	0.20^**	0.10	0.08	− 0.39^**	− 0.46^**
Activity/Community Participation	0.02	0.16^**	0.11^*	− 0.49^**	− 0.51^**
Access to Information and Communication	0.12^*	0.07	0.01	− 0.44^**	− 0.46^**
Effort compensating for hearing loss (Q3m)	0.30^**	0.08	−0.03	− 0.34^**	− 0.35^**
Stress when talking on phone (Q3p)	0.21^**	0.09	0.07	− 0.43^**	− 0.39^**
Satisfaction listening to lectures (Q4g)	0.12^*	0.07	0.07	− 0.33^**	− 0.49^**
Satisfaction attending movies/plays (Q4h)	0.08	0.05	−0.03	− 0.36^**	− 0.41^**
Satisfaction listening to music (Q4i)	0.20^**	0.09	0.01	− 0.44^**	− 0.34^**

Note.

^a

n = 376.

^b

n = 183.

Correlations without a superscript were not significant (p > 0.05).

^*

p < 0.05.

^**

p ≤ 0.01.