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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. 2019 May 23;38(7):648–657. doi: 10.1037/hea0000759

Table 2.

Zero-Order Correlations: Observed Illness Behavior Items, Temperament, and Covariates

Y 21
somatica
Y 21 sick
daysb
Y 21 medb Y 30
somatica
Y 30 sick daysb Y 30 medb
Temperament
Y 9 emot .12** −.02 .04 −.01 .08 .07
Y 9 soc −.12* −.02 −.06 − .04 −.11 −.11+
Y 21 emot-F .40*** .18*** .26*** .19** .10 .24***
Y 21 emot-A .12** .06 .07 .10 .01 .01
Y21soc −.13** −.07+ −.15*** −.03 −.02 .04
Covariates
Sexc
(.50=Female)
.28*** .09* .13** .25** .18** .18**
Family typec (.50=Control) −.05 .01 −.03 −.02 −.04 −.05
Adoptedc (1 = Adoptee) .01 −.01 .02 .01 .03 .09
Y 9 illnessesd .13** .07 .04 .22** .11 .09
Y 9 doctor visitsd .02 .05 −.04 .14* .01 −.05
Y 9 stress .01 .03 .02 .03 −.09 −.04
Parent educ −.03 .01 .01 −.02 .12* .03
Parent occup −.01 .02 .03 .01 .08 .06
Y 9 age −.01 −.04 .00 −.05 −.08 .03
Y 21 age −.10* −.10* −.07 .08 −.06 −.07
Y 30 age .07 .07 −.10 .03 .03 .07

Note. All were pairwise zero-order correlations. Ns ranged from 405 to 533 (Year 21) and from 210 to 270 (Year 30). All p values were two-tailed. emot-F = emotionality-fearfulness; emot-A = emotionality-anger.

a

Pearson-product correlation coefficients.

b

Spearman correlation coefficients for rank-ordered categorical variables.

c

Effects-coded variable.

d

Log-transformed variable.

+

p < .10.

*

p < .05.

**

p < .01.

***

p < .001.