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. 2019 Feb 6;43(2):521–530. doi: 10.1007/s00266-019-01308-6

Table 4.

The Spearman rank correlation coefficients between the neuroticism level measured before surgery and selected traits before and after surgery

Trait Before After
Assessment of character traits
 Positive adjectives − 0.236* − 0.091
 Negative adjectives 0.115 0.118
Lie scale − 0.055 − 0.111
Life satisfaction − 0.277** − 0.116

*Statistical significance at p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01