Table 4. Correlations between Psychological Resilience and Individual Tasks.

Relationships between CDRS and individual tasks (composing composites related to psychological resilience) among patients are first reported as unadjusted correlations, and then as partial correlations controlling for mood and fatigue. Significant correlations are in bold. The same relationships are then reported for healthy controls, with correlations in bold if they are significant or if they would be significant in a sample with n=185 (to allow comparisons with the MS groups). Exact p-values are reported. (As stated in the preliminary analysis section, FSS and MHI were empirically identified as important covariates. If we added BDI-FS as an additional covariate, the pattern of results remains the same: specific significant links between CDRS and both Grip and FTT, with a trend for 2MWT.)

				SDMT	NHPT	G-Pegs	FTT	Grip	T25FW	2MWT
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS	Unadjusted Correlations	CDRS	r	0.166	−0.194	0.098	0.183	0.307	−0.192	0.238
			p	0.024	0.008	0.185	0.013	<0.001	0.009	0.001
	Fully Adjusted Correlations	CDRS	rp	0.082	−0.144	0.014	0.192	0.223	−0.072	0.150
	Controlling for MHI & FSS		p	0.268	0.052	0.852	0.009	0.002	0.334	0.042
HEALTHY CONTROLS	Unadjusted Correlations	CDRS	r	0.099	−0.110	0.098	0.224	0.382	n/a	0.275
			p	0.495	0.445	0.496	0.118	0.006		0.053
	Fully Adjusted Correlations	CDRS	rp	0.201	−0.012	−0.012	0.203	0.274	n/a	0.157
	Controlling for MHI & FSS		p	0.170	0.934	0.935	0.166	0.059		0.286