Adaptive Skills and Somatization in Children with Epilepsy

Table 3

Correlations for parent/teacher report of adaptive subscales with epilepsy variables (rho) and parent-/teacher-rated somatization (Pearson’s 𝑟).

	Onset	Duration	Number medications
	𝑟	𝑟	𝑟
Parent variables
Somatization (𝑛=87)	−.03	−.16	.13
Adaptability (𝑛=75)	.05	−.13	−.28*
Social skills (𝑛=87)	.01	−.16	−.15
Leadership (𝑛=83)	−.01	−.20	−.26*
ADL (𝑛=43)	.23	−.25	−.41**
FuncComm (𝑛=43)	−.01	−.22	−.22
Teacher variables
Somatization (𝑛=78)	−.04	−.08	.19
Adaptability (𝑛=67)	−.08	−.03	.12
Social skills (𝑛=78)	.03	−.07	−.11
Leadership (𝑛=72)	.02	−.02	−.01
Study skills (𝑛=73)	.01	−.08	−.15
FuncComm (𝑛=39)	.31	−.31	.13

Notes. FuncComm: functional communication; ADL: activities of daily living.
^∗𝑃<.05.
^∗∗𝑃<.01.