Mental Health and Rheumatoid Arthritis: Toward Understanding the Emotional Status of People with Chronic Disease

Table 2

Descriptive statistics, reliability coefficient Cronbach's alpha.

	Range	M	SD	α
1. Pain intensity	0-20	9.57	5.20	.78^∗∗
a. Daytime pain	0-10	5.40	2.58	-
b. Night pain	0-10	4.17	2.93	-
2. Ego-Resiliency	24-55	41.67	7.03	.84
3. Cognitive coping	2-99	46.93	20.78	.91
4. Distraction coping	0-63	32.76	14.20	.88
5. Catastrophizing coping	0-64	31.36	13.67	.82
6. Anxiety	1-19	8.58	3.33	.76
7. Depression	0-13	5.46	3.31	.82

size of the correlation coefficient is reported because the intensity of pain was determined on the basis of two items.